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New comment by cgio in "Trophic memory, deer, and a unique scientific object"

cgio — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:41:51 +0000

I don’t know if related intentionally, but in Greece you can say that a wound θρέφει threphe as a verb for healing.

New comment by cgio in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

cgio — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:08:35 +0000

Has anyone else noticed the weekly utilisation dropping to 0% around this change? Mine was about 36 before and dropped a bit before disabling fable.

New comment by cgio in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

cgio — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:21:06 +0000

I think that this is the essence of the argument. I spent two weeks of long nights across a few different sessions with millions of tokens generated, to produce a 5 page proof. I think we have come to the age of the aesthetics of curation. At least I don’t feel like I broke this silent contract. The effort you put in driving the torrent of words before distilling it is a new art. First time I tried it and it felt more creative than slop. The judgement nevertheless lies on the eye of the beholder.

New comment by cgio in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

cgio — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:12:27 +0000

Short responses are increasingly becoming a signal of genuine human attention.

New comment by cgio in "Magnifica Humanitas"

cgio — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:45:51 +0000

We are all in the trenches of the war you refer to. For those of us who engage with a spirit of for the greater good, the side you are rooting for is as dangerous and malevolent as the side you supposedly plan to protect yourself from.

New comment by cgio in "[dead]"

cgio — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:57:48 +0000

The Turing test is about tricking. Look at the genealogy of the work. In a society where homosexuality was persecuted and homosexuals had to imitate “heterosexual behaviour “ to avoid chemical castration, it wouldn’t be a huge leap to say that , from a functionalism perspective, pretending to be intelligent is the nature itself of being intelligent. Not that I agree with this position, but this is one area where moving the goalposts does not help. Define your own test if you are not happy, don’t piggyback on someone’s else to pass new conditions without the required scrutiny.

New comment by cgio in "Magnifica Humanitas"

cgio — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:35:58 +0000

This has weird “look what you made me do” undernotes. A Christian can live by their values without forcing them on others. As anyone can from any religion or not religious at all.

New comment by cgio in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

cgio — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:48:42 +0000

I think this is not discussed enough. These are huge investments and destroying them requires a significant time to recover. Our key growth play being AI which is a huge energy consumer, impacting the long term supply chain for energy is questionable.

New comment by cgio in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

cgio — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:38:16 +0000

They will pay us to colonise Mars! One way trip.

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

cgio — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:08:35 +0000

Apologies. I should be more specific. The book is Surfaces and Essences if I remember correctly.

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

cgio — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:27:04 +0000

That’s valid also from the point of view that pain is a key signal to avoid injury. I am not sure it’s the best example of qualia and it could be simulated by self preservation signals (e.g. the touch sensor on a Roomba). The extension of pain (in Hofstadter sense) is probably more appropriate as qualia (e.g. the pain of losing someone you love).

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

cgio — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:06:32 +0000

You are probably converging to Tononi’s IIT. Read the criticism from Aaronson too. Not fundamentally against your approach.

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

cgio — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:03:09 +0000

By saying it’s simulated you don’t make a simplification. What does it simulate? What are the mechanics of simulation and is it substrate specific or independent? Can a computer simulate these qualia? It’s easy to say something is simple but harder to prove it is any simpler than the alternatives.

New comment by cgio in "The Third Hard Problem"

cgio — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:45:15 +0000

Maybe allegedly so but in reality it worked once again, given there’s still management to be reorganised.

New comment by cgio in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

cgio — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:44:01 +0000

Next feature is creating stories. Double burn.

New comment by cgio in "A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing (2025)"

cgio — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:33:40 +0000

Looks well thought out, but what are the mechanics of plugging this into reactive workflows? I always thought a nice event sourcing query language would evolve along the thoughts in https://picolabs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/docs/pages/118989...

New comment by cgio in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

cgio — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:08:30 +0000

Privileged access should only be temporary in context of break glass with approval. People can go ballistic with core systems for reasons other than firing.

New comment by cgio in "Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]"

cgio — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:33:39 +0000

Ok, I will make it mostly US. Maybe a couple more markets, London and Tokyo? Futures may be a bit broader adoption too. Vast majority won’t move to 24/7. Crypto is a different game for the time being at least. It has its own challenges but also escapes quite a few of traditional exchange complexities.

New comment by cgio in "Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]"

cgio — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:50:36 +0000

There are different kinds of updates that influence options and feasibility. Keeping in mind that deep in the heart of an exchange is a single threaded process, the sequencer. Therefore, you have three layers, external facing protocols, sequencer/matching engines, and internal interfaces. Internal interfaces are the easiest for b/g. External protocols, any change worth its weight changes the protocol and therefore requires participants to change their codebases too. Versioning protocols is an option, but still the integration with consumers is much more transparent and usually you have them test on pre-prod environments, occasionally also requiring attestation and conformance testing (regulated markets). Sequencer and matching engine are at the core. You could do parallel runs but not b/g. Theoretically you could abstract the matching engine and keep a barebones sequencer immutable, but this will have performance implications. So yes, you can do things, but not in a completely transparent way, unless if you introduce an “upgrade jitter” to give you a window for transparent upgrades. It’s an interesting domain, I think people will just accept occasional downtimes as a better option than constant jitter cost.

New comment by cgio in "Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]"

cgio — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:03:43 +0000

The first 90% of features takes 10% of the time to deliver. You are comparing capital infrastructure markets with deep regulatory obligations and multiple stateful interfaces (OUCh/FIX) to retail focused matching engines with a very slim stateless protocol surface (REST).