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New comment by blueprint in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

blueprint — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:38:56 +0000

Feynman, a famous man from an older era who tried to inspire, remind, and spur people...

> macroscopic objects

It's not about scale at all though. It's just that small systems tend to be observed with this other, specific property that we associate with causing "quantum" like effects. Not only do those effects happen at mesoscopic scale but aside from gravity, quantum theory already can be and is used to describe things on large scales too. Classical computers and desks are still "quantum" systems. Recently theory and experiments have developed to connect with gravity in many ways. I'm more confused when people say something is mysterious. They're usually referring to apparent randomness but I think even that is explained already with partitions or even just wave math (complementarity).

New comment by blueprint in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

blueprint — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:34:19 +0000

> nobody really knows what they are talking about

Could you form a specific question that you're wondering about? (Have you looked at condensed matter physics yet?)

New comment by blueprint in "How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?"

blueprint — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:02:44 +0000

Then they should decide not to treat certain things and have better criteria around that than choosing to bury their heads in the sand and letting people die out of their ignorance.

New comment by blueprint in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

blueprint — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:36:29 +0000

> It can be made to any degree of reliability you desire.

Absolutely false statement.

New comment by blueprint in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

blueprint — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:05:02 +0000

What people hope 'AGI' is would at least be able to make confirmations of fact and know what verification means. LLMs don't have 'knowledge' and do not actually 'reason'. Heuristic vs simulation. One can be made to approach the other, but only on a specific and narrow path. Someone who knows something can verify that they know it. An "intelligence" implies it is doing operations based on rules, but LLMs cannot conform themselves to rules that require them to reason everything through. What people have hoped AGI would be could be trained to reliably adopt the practice of reasoning. Necessary but maybe not sufficient, and I'm just gonna blame that on the term "intelligence" actually indicating a still relatively low level of what I will "consciousness".

New comment by blueprint in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

blueprint — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:59:42 +0000

What version did you use? What errors did you see? Don't get me wrong, I've spent 20 years with it, and there was a learning curve - but isn't that the case with many good tools? Again, don't get me wrong, I have some feedback for Apple, and there's a reason why we affectionately call it a harsh mistress. But that doesn't mean it's somehow not one of the best designed, best functioning, and most powerful suites for programming with certain other incidentally very well engineered SDKs etc. And yes, things may have gone downhill a little bit, especially at the scale they're at now. If we could talk about Xcode of, say, 2014, it'd be a less ambiguous conversation.

New comment by blueprint in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

blueprint — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:54:51 +0000

> Hasn't everybody at least tried everything significant just because?

No, not in the slightest. I would call this one the most dangerous and unfortunate fallacies that so many intelligent people have ever accepted and been cheated by. If it were true, you'd know everything important there is to know, and be a master of philosophy, and would have many answers to some basic questions which most people have been told have no good or concrete or verifiable answers.

New comment by blueprint in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

blueprint — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:15:32 +0000

How many of those people who spend their time using other IDEs on other OSs (where Xcode doesn't run) spend any amount of time using Xcode and therefore have the requisite experience to be able to know that it's generally excellent?

And when you say "you hear", you really mean "you", not "me". I hear it a lot.

What motivated your comment?

New comment by blueprint in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

blueprint — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:26:11 +0000

I know Xcode might struggle every now and then with some of the things you're talking about and I'm not saying that I don't have any feedback for Apple, but Xcode is one of the most powerful and well designed development and instrumentation environments I've ever used.

New comment by blueprint in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

blueprint — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:44:56 +0000

no, you missed some of my sentences. you have to take the whole picture together. and I was not making an argument to you to prove the existence of the truth. You are clearly bent on arguing against its existence, which tells me enough about you. We were talking about agents that operate in good faith that know that they are safe. When you're ready to have a discussion in good faith rather than attempting to find counterarguments, then you will find that what I said is verifiable. The question is not whether you think you can come up with a way to make an argument that sounds like it contradicts what I said.

The question is not whether an AGI knows that it is an AGI. The question is whether it knows that it is not one. And you're missing the fact that there's no such thing as it here.

If you go around acting hostile to good people that's still not very intelligent. In fact, I would question if you have any concept of why you're doing it at all. chances are you're doing it to run from yourself not because you know what you're doing.

Anyway, you're just speculating and the fact of the matter is that you don't have to speculate. If you actually wanted to verify what I said, it would be very easy to do so. it's not a surprise that someone who doesn't want to know something will have deaf ears. so I'm not going to pretend that I stand a chance of convincing you when I already know that my argument is accurate.

don't be so sure that you meet the criteria for AGI.

and as for my slam dunk, any attempt to argue against the existence of truth, automatically validates your assumption of its existence. so don't make the mistake of assuming I had to argue about it. I was merely stating a fact.

New comment by blueprint in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

blueprint — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:37:19 +0000

It's very simple. The model itself doesn't know and can't verify it. It knows that it doesn't know. Do you deny that? Or do you think that a general intelligence would be in the habit of lying to people and concealing why? At the end of the day, that would be not only unintelligent, but hostile. So it's very simple. And there is such a thing as "the truth", and it can be verified by anyone repeatably in the requisite (fair, accurate) circumstances, and it's not based in word games.

New comment by blueprint in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

blueprint — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:14:41 +0000

is Chen in custody?

If not, why wouldn't he just transfer the funds to a new seed?

New comment by blueprint in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

blueprint — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:13:18 +0000

I guess they have a quantum computer.

New comment by blueprint in "Feds: Brothers stole $25M in crypto in 12 seconds. Defense: outsmarted bots"

blueprint — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:14:56 +0000

I'm curious how their search queries were able to be found, if anyone happens to know details about this.

New comment by blueprint in "Wharton's Siegel says it's scandalous the US doesn't have a rare earths reserve"

blueprint — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:12:48 +0000

You mean the country which disappears its own citizens for expressing doubt at their "leadership"?

New comment by blueprint in "Oral bacteria linked to Parkinson's via the gut-brain axis"

blueprint — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:41:16 +0000

was he exposed to Roundup?

New comment by blueprint in "iPhone Air"

blueprint — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:40:22 +0000

lol Yeah they need to fix that. I thought it was some new kind of phone stand.

New comment by blueprint in "CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web"

blueprint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:20:21 +0000

perhaps in a similar way that it is impossible to directly "observe" a wavefunction without collapsing it into an observale "effect".

New comment by blueprint in "Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack"

blueprint — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:40:26 +0000

i'm not appealing to anything except for asking the dude who replied to me for a damn reference when I'm the one who was friends with researchers who told me about their own work. Learn how conversations work instead of trying to shit on other people. Jerk.

New comment by blueprint in "Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack"

blueprint — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:14:16 +0000

they ran numbers on it. Do you have any references to support what you're saying?