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New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions"

aoeusnth1 — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:38:01 +0000

"To all my haters who said I mispredicted the capabilities of these systems, rest assured: my statements have no predictive worth at all! I am not saying anything concrete!"

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

aoeusnth1 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:54:39 +0000

Did I miss where OpenAI plagerized the disproof of the planar unit distance problem from?

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions"

aoeusnth1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:08:01 +0000

We're discussing whether they are models or not, not whether they have goals and agency. A language model does form a model of who you are and what you're thinking, because language is causally connected to those aspects of the generating distribution and modeling those aspects reduces cross-entropy.

RL provides the goals and agency. Pretraining provides the model.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions"

aoeusnth1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:07:48 +0000

When I read your reply, I’m also modeling language. Tokens are just the discretization of the model’s eyes and ears. My brain does a huge amount of work to represent what’s happening in the world based on discrete information received from the outside world, just like language models do.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'"

aoeusnth1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:58:21 +0000

The universe contains subsystems which can be described as eluded in the sense that we can take the intentional stance on these systems and describe their observable behavior as being in a state of illusion of separation.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

aoeusnth1 — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:54:29 +0000

There is nothing which makes either of them are “you.” The feeling of Self is a useful predictor which a physical subsystem uses to nagivate the world and predict observations. “I” is not a physically real label which attaches the “you”-ness to physical systems, the physical systems simply are, and are inherently first-person in character. The only real you is the global quantum wave function, or whatever the underlying real stuff is doing.

Materialism directly implies no-self and Advaita Vedanta schools of thought.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions"

aoeusnth1 — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:32:37 +0000

The model is the thing which is learned in order to make the probabilistic prediction with low entropy.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

aoeusnth1 — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:25:28 +0000

AI agents

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

aoeusnth1 — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:45:37 +0000

I believe they were using their teeth (or lack thereof) to reference their visible meth addiction. See GP, "2) meth is neurodegenerative. heavy users end up with a permanent disability."

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)"

aoeusnth1 — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:40:05 +0000

The article explicitly and repeatedly affirms that illegal THC vapes are dangerous because of Vitamin E Acetate, which is used as a thickener agent. TFA points out how the NYT article carefully weasels its way around admitting that the THC vaping was the cause of the teenager's lung injury - the NYT is attempting to get the audience to associate the harm with legal nicotine vapes.

Does that make more sense to you now?

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

aoeusnth1 — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:44:17 +0000

Meat is optional.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

aoeusnth1 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:21:16 +0000

And idle% is causally connected to whether you make a request or not, surely? I don't understand how your mental model works.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

aoeusnth1 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:16:05 +0000

Babies are not conditionally created to solve a problem.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

aoeusnth1 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:48:32 +0000

SWE-bench pro is ~20% higher than the previous .1 generation which was released 2 months ago. For their SWE benchmark, the token consumption iso-performance is down 2x from the model they released 2 months ago.

If this is a plateau I struggle to imagine what you consider fast progress.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput"

aoeusnth1 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:11:33 +0000

Why is a map lookup measured in ms instead of us? Something is seriously wrong with these benchmarks.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

aoeusnth1 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:36:43 +0000

> Wobbly assumption that increasing the size of these models yields better performance.

I'm assuming you disagree that larger models are better? Can you expand on what indicates that AI will hit a wall in scaling given the evidence of the last 9 years of scaling transformers (or other models)? Where on the plot does the line go from exponential to flat?

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

aoeusnth1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:09:22 +0000

How would you know if it wasn't an extrapolation of current knowledge? Can you point me to somethings humans have done which isn't an extrapolation?

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

aoeusnth1 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:26:02 +0000

You could reimplement it as public domain on your machine, and then edit it by hand and copyleft your own edits.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL"

aoeusnth1 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:50:35 +0000

Citation needed? Tall tasks are standard practice to improve utilization and reduce hotspots by reducing load variance across tasks.

New comment by aoeusnth1 in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

aoeusnth1 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:06:56 +0000

I don't think he's misleading, I think he is valuing Claude's contributions as essentially having cracked the problem open while the humans cleaned it up into something presentable.