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New comment by horacemorace in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

horacemorace — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:29:12 +0000

Right. But at their core they are math formulas devised by a process designed to produce mimicry of task completion. The math formulas themselves aren’t fully effable. We’re sure studying the heck out of how they complete the tasks! Bet they converged on how we do it, since it’s our language, but who knows.

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

horacemorace — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:43:08 +0000

Lots of folks don’t consider it a problem because it relies on ridiculous assumptions.

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

horacemorace — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:38:54 +0000

This doesn’t make sense at all.

New comment by horacemorace in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

horacemorace — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:52:35 +0000

This future is here already, policy makers have it locked up. Any person who remembers what microfiche is understands the magnitude of this problem of not having a trustworthy public record. If we extended public policy from the library era, the library of congress itself would be the Internet Archive.

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

horacemorace — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:43:40 +0000

Sounds also like Daniel Dennett.

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

horacemorace — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:41:39 +0000

From an internal perspective, thoughts are both the witness and the witnessed. The problem only comes when trying to apply our language which is firmly rooted in this artificial dualism.

New comment by horacemorace in "NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address"

horacemorace — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:14:05 +0000

They’re avoiding editorializing. PBS news has the same dry “facts only” flavor. Legitimate reporting takes the high road; corpo-media too often take the low road. Unfortunately human information consumers tend to gravitate toward sources of maximum opinion.

New comment by horacemorace in "Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser"

horacemorace — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:52:47 +0000

Check out Don Lancaster’s tinaja archive, if it’s still around. He was quite enamored with NeXT style universal postscript and wrote at length about it.

New comment by horacemorace in "EFF is leaving X"

horacemorace — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:06:26 +0000

My neighbor blares Fox in their kitchen every day. I view them with the same flavor of suspicion as someone who posts there.

New comment by horacemorace in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

horacemorace — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:27:42 +0000

Because questions like this force us to hold up a very uncomfortable mirror to ourselves. It’s much easier to just dismiss.

New comment by horacemorace in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

horacemorace — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:47:13 +0000

I’m more of a dabbler dev/script guy than a dev but Every. single. thing I ever write in javascript ends up being incredibly fast. It forces me to think in callbacks and events and promises. Python and C (or async!) seem easy and sorta lazy in comparison.

New comment by horacemorace in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

horacemorace — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:59:16 +0000

Personally as a teenager I’ve been met with a group of cops all pointing guns at me when I was just walking around at night with no weapons whatsoever. They got a call from a paranoid homeowner nearby. They’re trained to shoot first and ask questions later.

New comment by horacemorace in "What Claude Code chooses"

horacemorace — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:50:04 +0000

That’s interesting about Express. Literally every time it (opus 46 one shots) chooses that, in my experience. But I always specify javascript.

New comment by horacemorace in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

horacemorace — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:18:03 +0000

There’s also an extremely straightforward argument that if the current crop of authoritarian dictatorial players in power now had been then that the outcome of the latter 20th would have been much different.

New comment by horacemorace in "Facebook is cooked"

horacemorace — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:06:46 +0000

Sweet best back-and-forth All-sides on this topic. It’s very complex. On what rules ought we regulate, if any? Probably some somehow.

New comment by horacemorace in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

horacemorace — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:19:01 +0000

The leaders of US government certainly do. Much too fondly.

New comment by horacemorace in "3D-Printed Mathematical Lampshades"

horacemorace — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:39:59 +0000

Yes. Claude is surprisingly capable in this area, maybe because the shapes are so simple. Using a slicer in vase mode should make it print quickly too.

New comment by horacemorace in "Super Monkey Ball ported to a website"

horacemorace — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:27:26 +0000

iOS Firefox seems fine to me. Nice and snappy.

New comment by horacemorace in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

horacemorace — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:54:29 +0000

woosh

New comment by horacemorace in "First, make me care"

horacemorace — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:29:36 +0000

There are malicious ads linked from that site. Do not recommend.