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New comment by hparadiz in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

hparadiz — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:13:38 +0000

Experiance is subjective even among the same species. For example you and I have access to a billion times more information and easily have 100 times the education. Yet when discussing cognition I find what Descartes thought about cognition is an appeal to tradition; not an argument. Whereas you apparently do not. I find this particularly odd. Especially since there is a mountain of evidence proving he was wrong. So why would you even bring it up? Just to be contrarian?

New comment by hparadiz in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

hparadiz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:37:41 +0000

You think animals don't experience pain?

New comment by hparadiz in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

hparadiz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:14:03 +0000

It's probably both.

New comment by hparadiz in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

hparadiz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:43:34 +0000

Consciousness is a misnomer here.

What I'm actually talking about is decision making. This applies to higher and lower life forms. Even a bacteria will decide things from moment to moment. Well okay how does this happen? Well something in the background must provide new data to the "tick". Ticks don't rebuild on each turn. They get re-used. But that re-use is updated from sensory inputs, memory, and then is filtered to limit how many tokens each congitive tick is forced to process. Anyway consciousness is an emergent property of this system. We're just state machines ultimately.

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

hparadiz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:24:58 +0000

Outside of math you can basically take the entire corpus of research papers on any topic and have the AI read all of it and provide an analysis cross referencing everything all at once. This applies to everyone and everything.

New comment by hparadiz in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

hparadiz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:20:22 +0000

You're confusing multiple concepts.

The tick is at the top of an async jobs queue. The jobs provide the tick with constant updates. And this is not in real time. If you are injured say a sudden injury. You won't even notice until 2-3 ticks after.

Behavior is an emergent property of this. Not it's base.

New comment by hparadiz in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

hparadiz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:08:20 +0000

"Consciousness" is tick based and it does not require a massive human brain. Even the smallest of animals react in real time to stimulus. There's a filter that lowers the amount of tokens the next tick has to process. That's why you can watch a video and two different people will notice entirely different things about it. Forgetting is our brains culling what they process. Being awake eventually degrades that process. You can see this in every study on tokenized llms showing a decrease in accuracy as the context fills up. So too does your brain. That is why we sleep.

Short answer yes. We can build a brain.

As for quantum effects. It's just the machine. Not the mind itself. It's sort of like asking how a CPU works and then expecting that to inform your science on cognition.

New comment by hparadiz in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

hparadiz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:22:49 +0000

Try getting karpathy guidelines skill. Tends to help with that. I use it universally with all models and all harness.

Sol xhigh is my default rn.

New comment by hparadiz in "RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland"

hparadiz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:08:42 +0000

Yea I need to know this before I even consider something like this. I'm guessing it's a daemon that runs as root in the background.

New comment by hparadiz in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

hparadiz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:06:03 +0000

Cursor is a subscription. You can use the tui harness called agent without the ide.

New comment by hparadiz in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

hparadiz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:04:18 +0000

When I say "I use cursor" I mean the subscription. In reality I use the cli tui literally called "agent" and the cursor ide isn't installed at all.

New comment by hparadiz in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

hparadiz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:02:34 +0000

The $20 / month isn't as good as Codex or Claude. Codex reset twice this week while I'm sitting waiting for the entire month to role around with Cursor. I have all three so can have a pulse on everything.

New comment by hparadiz in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

hparadiz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:58:04 +0000

All the models are good enough for almost all normal tech job work. If all you are doing is building a react app there's functionally no difference. You'd only want a frontier model to work on something extra complex but even that will be baked into the basic models within six months.

New comment by hparadiz in "Grok 4.6"

hparadiz — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:00:35 +0000

Okay so everyone is blaming diffusion or spying or whatever but we all use all of the models on our various projects in aggregate and they get to all read the code each other is generating. I do this with research tasks and local random stuff too.

So why do people have this idea in their heads that it's all some sorta secret sauce they are taking from each other?

New comment by hparadiz in "Grok 4.6"

hparadiz — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:57:39 +0000

Why is everyone ignoring the pattern that has existed since training models became a thing? At first it sucks. Then it's better than humans. Just by using it you generate training data that makes it better over time.

New comment by hparadiz in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

hparadiz — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:00:13 +0000

Other models will end up diffusing it and making the signal indeterministic and irrelevant.

New comment by hparadiz in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

hparadiz — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:42:40 +0000

I know you're gonna read this so I'll be blunt. This is bad for your brand.

Show HN: I built a Calendr clone for KDE Plasma

hparadiz — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:13:32 +0000

Yoman is a calendar panel widget for KDE Plasma 6. It lives in the panel showing the date, and opens a popup with a month grid and the day's events. It reads your existing Google Calendar (through KDE Online Accounts) and any events in KDE's KOrganizer.

Designed to grab your attention with notifications, an optional full-screen alert, and a literal count down to the event right in your menu bar.

Yoman is read-only by design.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200997

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New comment by hparadiz in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

hparadiz — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:07:36 +0000

On top of that a sizable percentage of theft victims don't even bother to report it stolen.

New comment by hparadiz in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

hparadiz — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:46:08 +0000

They send them to countries where they aren't locked or break it down for parts.