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New comment by candlemas in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

candlemas — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:24:28 +0000

Why wouldn't every computer be conscious?

New comment by candlemas in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

candlemas — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:31:15 +0000

And Iron Lung earlier this year.

New comment by candlemas in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

candlemas — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:57:50 +0000

John Milton was 63 when Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes were published.

New comment by candlemas in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

candlemas — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:23:13 +0000

Back in 2015 Twitter bragged that Periscope had been widely used the night before to pirate a pay-per-view boxing match. I thought that was odd.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/sports/periscope-a-stream...

New comment by candlemas in "Nine months later, is still the "Gulf of Mexico" to news outlets"

candlemas — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:37:31 +0000

I went to a minor national park over the summer (Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park) and there was a map of the United States showing all the national parks in the country with a "Gulf of America" sticker placed over "Gulf of Mexico".

New comment by candlemas in "A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe"

candlemas — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:44:27 +0000

Kind of looks like the Stonks guy meme.

New comment by candlemas in "Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon"

candlemas — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:13:46 +0000

"Milton, 42, and his wife donated more than $1.8 million to a Trump re-election campaign fund less than a month before the November election, according to the Federal Election Commission."

https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-...

New comment by candlemas in "Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon"

candlemas — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:06:59 +0000

He doesn't have a conscience.

New comment by candlemas in "AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger"

candlemas — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:44:26 +0000

My site has also recently been getting massively hit by Brazilian IPs. It lasts for a day or two, even if they are being blocked.

New comment by candlemas in "Bunker Busters probably failed to penetrate Iranian concrete"

candlemas — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:58:48 +0000

How do they deal with earthquakes?

New comment by candlemas in "How to Build Conscious Machines"

candlemas — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:28:42 +0000

Maybe he doesn't think consciousness is a computation.

New comment by candlemas in "The Gentle Singularity"

candlemas — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:52:10 +0000

Will the period between whole classes of jobs going away and a new social contract be short enough so that a Butlerian Jihad doesn't kick off?

New comment by candlemas in "Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq"

candlemas — Sun, 25 May 2025 17:22:25 +0000

There were a few reasons but an important one is that Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld were convinced by Laurie Mylroie that Iraq really had something to do with 9/11 and everybody in the administration was paranoid about another attack. Wolfowitz also felt guilty about the George H. W. Bush administration abandoning the Shiites. All of them (except maybe Powell and Armitage) already disliked Iraq, felt like the first war was unfinished business, and didn't need much prodding to go after Saddam but the 9/11 connection they thought existed gave it urgency. Ultimately it came down to Bush and he probably thought it sounded like a good idea and not for any particular reason.

New comment by candlemas in "Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet"

candlemas — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:53:18 +0000

They're game testers.

New comment by candlemas in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

candlemas — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:11:03 +0000

The biggest offenders for my website have always been from China.

New comment by candlemas in "The number pi has an evil twin"

candlemas — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:08:20 +0000

>On our planet, it was Bernoulli, Euler and Gauss who discovered this math.

You don't say. Newton must have been sick that day.

New comment by candlemas in "AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells"

candlemas — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:49:18 +0000

I don't know what they mean by AI but this reminds me of an old fortune:

*** Special AI Seminar (abstract)

It has been widely recognized that AI programs require expert knowledge in order to perform well in complex domains. But knowledge alone is not sufficient for some applications; wisdom is needed as well. Accordingly, we have developed a new approach to artificial intelligence which we call "wisdom engineering". As a test of our ideas, we have written IMMANUEL, a wisdom based system for the task domain of western philosophical thought. IMMANUEL was supplied initially with 200 wisdom units which contained wisdom about such elementary concepts as mind, matter, being, nothingness, and so forth. IMMANUEL was then allowed to run freely, guided by the heuristic rules contained in its heterarchically organized meta wisdom base. IMMANUEL succeeded in rediscovering most of the important philosophical ideas developed in western culture over the course of the last 25 centuries, including those underlying Plato's theory of government, Kant's metaphysics, Nietzsche's theory of value, and Husserl's phenomenology. In this seminar, we will describe IMMANUEL's achievements and internal architecture. We will also briefly discuss our recent efforts to apply wisdom engineering to oil exploration.

New comment by candlemas in "New York Times tech workers go on strike"

candlemas — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:48:13 +0000

https://archive.is/FXzlC

https://archive.is/D7bzF

New comment by candlemas in "Can You Get Root with Only a Cigarette Lighter?"

candlemas — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:49:46 +0000

Just like The Fonz.

New comment by candlemas in "For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful"

candlemas — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:29:28 +0000

You should keep asking every once in a while.