Hacker News: kapsi

New comment by kapsi in "The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)"

kapsi — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:08:51 +0000

I asked ChatGPT to estimate memory requirements of a brain simulation, with neurons from a paper linked in OP post ("Single cortical neurons as deep artificial neural networks"). This paper uses neuron models that are supposed to simulate real ones. The answer was 8-50 PB, with 10^7 weights shared between neurons, or 3.4 EB if each neuron has its own 10^7 weights. So it's not out of the realm of possibility.

New comment by kapsi in "Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence"

kapsi — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:36:36 +0000

Long term memory?

New comment by kapsi in "Fable Took My Job"

kapsi — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:31:46 +0000

I can't afford it, I'm unemployed, AI took my job

New comment by kapsi in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

kapsi — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:43:08 +0000

>Dario, Sam, Demis, and Elon have all said this loudly and repeatedly to anyone who asks.

While taking and hoarding as much as possible, as fast as possible. Oh and Elon had a brief episode of trying to fire people from government jobs.

New comment by kapsi in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

kapsi — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:16:15 +0000

You can also sell them your children, if they're hot. It's like printing money!

New comment by kapsi in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

kapsi — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:25:16 +0000

What about the people who sold gold? Didn't they make money?

New comment by kapsi in "Ask HN: Getting into AI?"

kapsi — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:34:06 +0000

That's true but it's also what Bitcoin did 13 years ago, meanwhile all the hype about taking over the world doesn't seem to be coming true.

New comment by kapsi in "Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT"

kapsi — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:18:12 +0000

You fool, that's exactly what it wants.

New comment by kapsi in "Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT"

kapsi — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:06:36 +0000

I think it's a perfectly cromulent word.

New comment by kapsi in "Tell HN: OpenAI can solve Leetcode problems"

kapsi — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:42:07 +0000

Let me check in a year

New comment by kapsi in "Ask HN: Getting into AI?"

kapsi — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 12:45:21 +0000

There's some difference between blockchain and AI, that is AI works.

New comment by kapsi in "Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet"

kapsi — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:30:42 +0000

So that Twitter user started talking about Wikipedia funding the "culture war", and I stopped reading. I guess it's my own fault for reading what an anime avatar has to say.

New comment by kapsi in "Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies"

kapsi — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:17:50 +0000

A sufficiently smart and malicious AI could wipe out most of our knowledge, now that everything is stored on electronic devices.

New comment by kapsi in "Why Did Comedy Die?"

kapsi — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 14:25:47 +0000

Even as a kid I thought Austin Powers or Adam Sandler were trash. "Don't Look Up" is funnier than most of his hits from the past.

New comment by kapsi in "Why are there so few dead bugs on windshields these days?"

kapsi — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:17:29 +0000

>These were normally brown like tree bark but evolved to look like sooty brick in a few years.

Because the brown ones got eaten. But that's different from evolving to recognize where a road is, which is maybe possible but probably would take thousands or millions of years.

New comment by kapsi in "Why are there so few dead bugs on windshields these days?"

kapsi — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:13:18 +0000

If there were that many of organized climate protesters they would be heard as well, it always comes down to numbers and potential for violence.

New comment by kapsi in "Why are there so few dead bugs on windshields these days?"

kapsi — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:03:47 +0000

What's gonna happen in 100 years? Are the insects waiting for something?

New comment by kapsi in "Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10"

kapsi — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:40:42 +0000

I don't think most people know that rendering engines exist.

New comment by kapsi in "Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10"

kapsi — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:38:50 +0000

Of course it counts if you use Gmail.

New comment by kapsi in "Baby robot unveiled in Japan as number of childless couples grows"

kapsi — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:58:05 +0000

"plummeting birth rates have left many couples without children" - something is off with this sentence