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New comment by lupire in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

lupire — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:16:54 +0000

Do you have any evidence that he took their money?

New comment by lupire in "Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)"

lupire — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:11:12 +0000

Flagged for misleading title

New comment by lupire in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

lupire — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:10:34 +0000

Flagged for misleading title

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

lupire — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:15:57 +0000

Every computer/program I have ever used has a body and sensors (afferent)and actuators (efferent).

So I have no idea what distinction Ted Chiang is trying to draw

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

lupire — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:13:09 +0000

Babies don't sustain themselves. Do babies have souls?

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

lupire — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:09:00 +0000

It asks important questions. It's not so presumptuous as to try to answer them conclusively.

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

lupire — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:05:43 +0000

Are you a vegan?

If not, then your comment's claim is false.

Anyway, the deeper solution is to acknowledge that all life is sacred, and infinities cannot be compared, and some decisions are impossible to make, and some tragedies cannot be averted, and "prioritization" is a distraction that forces choices when choices are not strictly necessary.

New comment by lupire in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

lupire — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:12:01 +0000

This is wrong. See other comments.

New comment by lupire in "If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog"

lupire — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:11:14 +0000

That's not "baked" and only applies to remotely hosted LLMs where someone else feeds the prompt into the LLM.

New comment by lupire in "A molecule with half-Möbius topology"

lupire — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:49:16 +0000

PP was just making a dumb joke. The Hückel topology is topologically trivial but chemically interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius%E2%80%93H%C3%BCcke...

New comment by lupire in "A molecule with half-Möbius topology"

lupire — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:29:52 +0000

Note that the colors are important. You need a discrete structure with N rotational segments and a turn of 1/M. Otherwise any rational turn size will have have multiple Mobius strips.

New comment by lupire in "Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit"

lupire — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:59:23 +0000

It's not clear why I'd trust a company with decades of track record of being exploitable and a trillion dollar reputation to prop up over an anime avatar with a track record of finding exploits.

New comment by lupire in "Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)"

lupire — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:40:53 +0000

Soap opera of people being nice

New comment by lupire in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

lupire — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:52:59 +0000

Because many people know not trust unknown senders.

New comment by lupire in "Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)"

lupire — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:47:55 +0000

It's the job of a language designer to define everything.

New comment by lupire in "A History of IDEs at Google"

lupire — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:40:35 +0000

"google-three" which it obviously is?

New comment by lupire in "A History of IDEs at Google"

lupire — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:39:42 +0000

There's no reason to pull the entire repo just to build one project. Do you pull all of GitHub to your disk?

New comment by lupire in "A History of IDEs at Google"

lupire — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:38:21 +0000

OP is an ex-Googler

New comment by lupire in "Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud"

lupire — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:41:44 +0000

Fall guys.

Highest Profile Individuals Convicted Kareem Serageldin (Credit Suisse): Widely recognized as the only high-level Wall Street executive to serve prison time directly related to the GFC.

New comment by lupire in "Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall"

lupire — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:33:38 +0000

Yahoo doesn't have journalism. It's a syndication portal. https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/04/51828848/ubers-a...