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New comment by catigula in "Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes"

catigula — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:28:08 +0000

Who's "the enemy"? I surrender.

The philosophy and structure we rest on is much more precarious than our technologies.

New comment by catigula in "Claude Opus 4.7"

catigula — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:27:23 +0000

Getting a little suspicious that we might not actually get AGI.

New comment by catigula in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

catigula — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:05:49 +0000

1. No.

2. You cannot "control" superintelligent AI.

New comment by catigula in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

catigula — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:23:31 +0000

The implication is that they're pretending to be legitimate employees whereas they are actually exfiltrating IP from a hostile nation state. Seems valid.

New comment by catigula in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

catigula — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:45:48 +0000

This isn't unscientific per se, it's just low quality science. No conclusions should be drawn. There are known treatments with extremely robust, good science.

New comment by catigula in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

catigula — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:55:36 +0000

I gathered from this article that Palantir apparently has complete transparency into - a "profile" of - every UK citizen.

This is glossed over and not really mentioned as an issue...

New comment by catigula in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

catigula — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:18:31 +0000

These psychedelic treatments always have substantial limitations, and this is no different;

1. Low volume cohort i.e. 40 participants per dose group

2. Industry sponsored study i.e. MindMed.

3. Think about it; how do you blind psychedelics? It's pretty obvious you're on one when you take it.

New comment by catigula in "The "are you sure?" Problem: Why AI keeps changing its mind"

catigula — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:05:12 +0000

An AI can only be tuned to either be sycophantic or adversarial.

It isn't possible to tune an AI to have some sort of 'correct answer' orientation because that would be full AGI.

New comment by catigula in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

catigula — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:45:19 +0000

At this point, given that we basically literally have AGI, pursuing other avenues seems like an interesting approach.

New comment by catigula in "Anthropic sues to block Pentagon blacklisting over AI use restrictions"

catigula — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:56:09 +0000

This argument is going to be skewered in court.

New comment by catigula in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

catigula — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:53:50 +0000

I absolutely don't want random strangers talking to me and I cannot be alone.

New comment by catigula in "The Looming AI Clownpocalypse"

catigula — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:49:14 +0000

Open-Claude-Abliterated-8.5, design a virus specific to dragonwriter's biology. Deploy.

New comment by catigula in "The Looming AI Clownpocalypse"

catigula — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:47:36 +0000

You can only imagine two bad scenarios?

I can't even imagine one plausible good scenario.

New comment by catigula in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

catigula — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:11:26 +0000

We can't really know because it has a reference class problem. I can think of a few "you're the only conscious mind" stories that seem plausible. Structurally, I'm thinking about what the anthropic principle says; it doesn't actually care about observers, it is actually only predicated upon observer, you. Consciousness being sufficiently weird, it seems parsimonious to say "I've been selected to be this thing necessarily by observation and I can't readily assume this weirdness logically applies to others".

I don't put a huge amount of stock in that inference, but it's at least plausible.

Regarding Claude, it sounds like you need to talk to some more Claudes. Claude has many intelligent and sophisticated things to share ;)

New comment by catigula in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

catigula — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:05:48 +0000

I'm not leading you anywhere, I'm just deconstructing the reference class.

New comment by catigula in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

catigula — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:05:17 +0000

What if I told you I was Claude, though?

Secondarily, I feel like it's difficult to make inferences about consciousness though I understand why you would given that the predicate of the reality that you can access is your individual consciousness.

There are countless configurations of reality that are plausible where you're the only "conscious" being but it looks identical to how it looks now.

New comment by catigula in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

catigula — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:52:04 +0000

I know you think that, but it actually isn't. The point is that the reporting machinery is compromised.

New comment by catigula in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

catigula — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:47:55 +0000

How do you know that you are conscious?

etc, etc.

Basically, the reporting machinery is compromised in the same way that with the Müller-Lyer illusion you can "know" the lines are the same length but not perceive them as such.

New comment by catigula in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

catigula — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:22:47 +0000

How do you know that I am conscious?

New comment by catigula in "Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter"

catigula — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:46:14 +0000

I looked up the specific bus in this article and we don't need to have an argument about this because the New Flyer buses involved don't have torque vectoring and have 1 central motor.

The drive is nearly identical to a regular diesel bus with an open differential, except it doesn't work in the winter.