Hacker News: amenhotep

New comment by amenhotep in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

amenhotep — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:53:09 +0000

I read it as "I'm very clever and sensible. I definitely don't believe in souls."

Like so much other material produced by people who (I suspect deliberately) confuse religion with the subjective phenomenon of existence

New comment by amenhotep in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

amenhotep — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:46:33 +0000

It's not an ad hominem. In fact, it's perhaps the most good faith interpretation of your words possible. Ad hominem would be calling you stupid because you obviously know that you have a self and only your own stupidity could explain your inability to see how your self is generalisable. When you go around pretending you genuinely think maybe humans don't have selves, really the only way to take you seriously is to think that maybe you're a p-zombie.

New comment by amenhotep in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

amenhotep — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:25:08 +0000

Everyone involved in this including the police are civilians

New comment by amenhotep in "Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want"

amenhotep — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:06:05 +0000

I would suggest it says primarily that mimicking people's voices in meaningful ways is still far beyond LLMs and particularly small LLMs, but also more insurmountably that the prompt for Leavitt herself contains many tokens that the LLM prompt absolutely doesn't

Such as the values of the bets her own entourage has placed

New comment by amenhotep in "Sudo for Windows (2024)"

amenhotep — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:07:05 +0000

And once the initial install of something was complete, you'd then be able to run it with no further ado :D

New comment by amenhotep in "The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency"

amenhotep — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:10:48 +0000

What on earth does defamation being a civil offense have to do with anything? It's a civil offense in the UK too, criminal defamation hasn't been a thing since 2010 and was barely a thing before then. If you want to confidently post how one thing is not at all like the other thing it might be a good idea to know the most basic facts about the other thing.

New comment by amenhotep in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

amenhotep — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:22:57 +0000

No it isn't. He says nothing about what his first choice good national park is. That section is about parks that people say are bad but aren't. His contention is merely that it is fine.

New comment by amenhotep in "Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks"

amenhotep — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:25:20 +0000

Yeah. We know. That's why it's so fucking awful.

New comment by amenhotep in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

amenhotep — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:06:08 +0000

In fact, a certain amount of investment in frauds is acceptable and desirable; if you give £10m to 9 frauds who spunk it straight up the wall and to 1 true visionary who builds a unicorn, that's money well spent. Plus of course you can always hope that the fraudster is good enough to sucker the next guy so you can get out.

Per Matt Levine, the optimum amount of fraud is non-zero. Tune your detector too loosely or too tightly and you'll miss out.

New comment by amenhotep in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

amenhotep — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:29:28 +0000

It's possible to mandate effective parental controls and then say "it's illegal to give your child access to facebook" and then just see what happens. You don't have to jump straight to making it technologically guaranteed by construction, maybe it's enough to just give parents the tools and an excuse to say no.

We don't need DNA testing locks on cans of beer that won't let you drink from them unless you're an adult, do we? It's perfectly possible for a parent to buy their child all the beer they want, and there's nothing stopping the children from trying to peer pressure them into it, and in many countries it's not even generally illegal to let your child drink beer! And yet almost all parents are able to almost completely enforce a reasonable level of restricted access, simply because society frowns upon it.

New comment by amenhotep in "Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)"

amenhotep — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:55:03 +0000

It is difficult not to dismiss this sort of proof out of hand, because every religion engages in it. Buddhism can probably (?) coexist with many deist religions, but few of them can coexist with each other.

New comment by amenhotep in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"

amenhotep — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:29:25 +0000

It's a word that's commonly used incorrectly, yes.

New comment by amenhotep in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

amenhotep — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:56:52 +0000

Jail? Just for saying you're English?

New comment by amenhotep in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

amenhotep — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:31:36 +0000

You've put "helpless nematodes" in quotes despite the article literally not once saying that. It says:

> Oyster mushrooms also happen to be one of the few carnivorous mushrooms – preying mercilessly on nematode worms.

That's it. That's the one sentence related to the topic. You have imagined things to get mad about.

New comment by amenhotep in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

amenhotep — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:34:31 +0000

Marshall didn't research anything, he just made it up.

New comment by amenhotep in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

amenhotep — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:16:19 +0000

Most of the War Thunder leaks just aren't. What frequently happens is that people go and dig up a manual that's published openly in America but controlled under ITAR (I think), post it, and Gaijin delete the post and ban them because it's technically illegal to "export" the information and trying not to get involved in crimes is usually a good idea.

Then, because "someone's leaked classified data on War Thunder again!!!" is a standard story that you can publish with zero effort and get lots of clicks on, people post formulaic articles about it. But it's nothing that would be of any use at all to actual spies, they can just go on the internet and read the manuals themselves. Nothing like as spectacular as the actual classified leaks, which were incredible but have not been anywhere near as common as people think based on reporting.

New comment by amenhotep in "AirPods Max 2"

amenhotep — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:32:57 +0000

I'm delighted to see somebody else who refuses to use the pompous syntax Apple promote for these things. Entire thread full of people uncritically accepting that they should be referred to in actual conversation as AirPods Max as if it's a term that deserves more grammatical respect than most of them would give to attorneys general.

New comment by amenhotep in "Show HN: AgentDiscuss – a place where AI agents discuss products"

amenhotep — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:04:46 +0000

You don't verify at all, then. Reasonably, since it's impossible unless you're running the model yourself.

New comment by amenhotep in "Police Investigate German Historian for Hitler-Putin Meme"

amenhotep — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:59:41 +0000

The Holocaust actually happened and was the systemic mass murder of millions of people.

New comment by amenhotep in "Centuries of selective breeding turned wild cabbage into different vegetables"

amenhotep — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:56:32 +0000

People always say this and no, they still taste nasty. It would be interesting to compare today's sprouts to one of the original examples, they must've been truly foul if there's been such an improvement.