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New comment by cgio in "MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent"

cgio — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:39:47 +0000

I am not sure of the premise. You can have a filter which takes garbage in and outputs the clean data from the garbage, a denoiser. Also your definition of slop is not specific to slop. Any input can be garbage, including this human sourced and thought comment.

New comment by cgio in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

cgio — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:56:31 +0000

You maybe work things out on the fly by matching against abstract patterns. Could this be an indication not of lack of memory but of specialisation in abstract memory?

New comment by cgio in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

cgio — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:41:32 +0000

The price will increase in secondary market.

New comment by cgio in "The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)"

cgio — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:50:10 +0000

We agree in intuition more than it seems you think we do. This paper is mapping the intuition to the philosophical discourse of substrate independence. Track its course from Putnam and Searle to Chalmers Shagrir and Anderson Piccinini, and you will see where it fits as a small contribution. The part we will keep on disagreeing though is calling whatever is inconvenient broken …

New comment by cgio in "The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)"

cgio — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:18:09 +0000

Relaxation time is not a defect (breakage) but an attribute of substrates. A claim that implementation is dependent on reliable substrates, is essentially the trilemma and its conclusion that introduces covariant substrate independence. Implementation requires >= 1. I would not confuse this with computer program portability. Not the subject matter, even if it is a good source of first intuition. I would recommend the sources I reference as very good readings on the subject if you’re interested. Definitely more tested and accepted than mine. Anderson and Piccinini also has a very good introduction and probably the most advanced treatment.

New comment by cgio in "The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)"

cgio — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:37:38 +0000

I hypothesise in an informed manner. Paying for the Λ is what engineers in foundries do for us. This argument specifically is addressed in section 7: The natural objection — a substrate that realises A already has reliable transitions — is a dilemma. If “realises” is structural, such substrates exist and the theorem stands. If “realises” requires persistence, then by Lemma 4 it requires excluding the substrates with Λ < 1 — asserting Λ ≥1, a substrate fact about the relaxation timescale, not part of A and not a function of x_t — and neutrality is lost. The repair is the concession.

New comment by cgio in "The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)"

cgio — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:38:11 +0000

An implementation map assigns computational states to physical states. It is instantaneous if its verdict for t is a function of physical state x_tau alone.

New comment by cgio in "The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)"

cgio — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:10:54 +0000

I wouldn’t call an instant as meaningless in a continuum. It is indeed, though, non primitive and idealised as traditionally in physics (the physical state at time t, given as the limit of arbitrarily fine time resolution). If I understand your question correctly, the interesting issue is not whether instants exist as an idealisation, but how independent observations can be synchronised well enough to assess a physical implementation of an abstract mapping. That is a genuinely difficult problem, and one that appears even if time is discrete. It is one of my current work subjects. Anyone who has worked on distributed systems will recognise that ordering events is one thing, establishing a common notion of “now” is another. Once again, no “grand conclusions“ from me!

New comment by cgio in "The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)"

cgio — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:28:42 +0000

Exactly the intent of it! Does not claim inventing any physics, just relating it to implementation in philosophy. The graded theory is a bit more advanced on the physics front but not ready yet.

New comment by cgio in "The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)"

cgio — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:10:03 +0000

My thinking, tangential to the temporal section, is an Implementation Trilemma, a CAP style theorem. An implementation map can be:

1. instantaneous and faithful, at the cost of depending upon substrate-specific persistence parameters;

2. faithful and substrate-neutral, at the cost of requiring historical information;

3. instantaneous and substrate-neutral, at the cost of losing faithfulness.

No implementation map can satisfy all three simultaneously.

https://philarchive.org/rec/GIOTIT

New comment by cgio in "The End of an Era"

cgio — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:50:33 +0000

No one likes generating content. Many like generating income or status. It is a new era. The era of curation. I would predict shorter and weirder stories and meme style communication patterns outside normal syntax. Poetry e.g. is replicable but not redoable. I am ambitious we are to see the best writing ever soon.

New comment by cgio in "Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes"

cgio — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:15:37 +0000

Fuzzy logic?

New comment by cgio in "How real are real numbers? (2004)"

cgio — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:55:46 +0000

Arguably starts with Wheeler and “it from bit”. Zuse also, who predates Wolfram. For me it’s a little bit like calling the egg you hold in your hand the centre of the Universe while rolling on a skateboard.

New comment by cgio in "How real are real numbers? (2004)"

cgio — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:48:07 +0000

Actually it’s Solomonoff. But it’s called Solomonoff-Kolmogorov-Chaitin. So Chaitin is among the few people entitled to call it something and AIT is real and less pretentious than using his name.

New comment by cgio in "I wouldn't say Pangram is broken, but I would say that it's brittle"

cgio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:41:56 +0000

Indeed, that’s not about false positives predominantly. At least for me the key concern is if it’s giving a percentage when it looks like it calculates a Boolean and therefore implies more nuanced analysis than it does. Which explains the nesting behaviour too.

New comment by cgio in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

cgio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:21:58 +0000

Probably a mechanism like what you describe. This is one more move that will push things towards a two speed world economy. One US sanctioned and one not. The question will be eventually which speed will end up faster. The challenge is when to do that with a meaningful chance of success, and while I don’t like the answer, the objective answer seems to be as soon as possible. Most probably the game is already lost though, so that soon may be too late, and the strategy wrong for US as a power while still valid for the AI houses that will squeeze what they can on the downward trajectory. I don’t expect people to actually calculate though.

New comment by cgio in "Kimi Work"

cgio — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:12:46 +0000

I am not high, I have kids, and can tell you they barely care about Olivia Rodrigo or BTS. You dispel passports as irrelevant for one leg but base your argument on them for the other. The contradiction is sufficient.

New comment by cgio in "How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks"

cgio — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:38:03 +0000

A signal, I put an AI generated of mine (with heavy human guidance on aesthetics mostly and some minor human editing) and got 5% only.

New comment by cgio in "Kimi Work"

cgio — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:14:20 +0000

Not British, but taking UK out of the definition of pop, is a bit too rough a cut. Also France. Look at the queues outside pop-glamorous stores. And was pop-art a pop artefact? Is TikTok redefining pop? Movies is an old measure, and even US has fallen with just franchise dominating. I think as a globe we are much more integrated and co-dependent, occasionally also in bad ways, than we appreciate.

New comment by cgio in "I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens"

cgio — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:34:14 +0000

I did ship a quite efficient quantum simulator as a toy out of other work (and a block truncation certificate as a side-product). https://github.com/cgiogkarakis/qut