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New comment by mandolingual in "A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for"

mandolingual — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:19:39 +0000

"The unit above is the citation, not the claim." The RPM of the slop ouroboros ever rises.

New comment by mandolingual in "Starbase, LA"

mandolingual — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:34:19 +0000

Mid century American and Soviet space art had transparent political purpose, as does solarpunk. Futurism is rarely if ever just "it's the future, and that's neat!". It comes with the inherently political baggage of "We got from where we are to the glorious future, by way of (ideology)". Star Trek is a great example of this.

New comment by mandolingual in "Starbase, LA"

mandolingual — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:59:30 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_Futurism

It's always been political

New comment by mandolingual in "Could AIs Become Conscious?"

mandolingual — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:08:13 +0000

It's just Consciousness of the Gaps. Quantum mechanics are mysterious and are a frontier of science, so surely consciousness must dwell there.

New comment by mandolingual in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

mandolingual — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:49:08 +0000

These are indeed seven of the kinds of books I would expect to see in this kind of post shared on HN.

New comment by mandolingual in "Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard"

mandolingual — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:25:48 +0000

All those who voted for him and all those who didn't vote against him are equally complicit

New comment by mandolingual in "Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels"

mandolingual — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:58:25 +0000

So it is decreed! 'Cyberpunk aesthetic' is hereafter an incoherent concept! Well done, sir. Objective truth is defended.

New comment by mandolingual in "Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels"

mandolingual — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:25:19 +0000

And an aesthetic. You can google it if you're unfamiliar!

New comment by mandolingual in "Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels"

mandolingual — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:45:23 +0000

It's aesthetically extremely cyberpunk.

New comment by mandolingual in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

mandolingual — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:37:55 +0000

Fuck Trump and the slavering dolts who support him.

New comment by mandolingual in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

mandolingual — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:11:27 +0000

Flaw become aesthetic all time. People faked butt bandage follow Sun King fashion. Ugly as sin, still aesthetic.

New comment by mandolingual in "Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data"

mandolingual — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:44:21 +0000

And computers used to fill a room and require stacks of punch cards to use.

New comment by mandolingual in "Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts"

mandolingual — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:34:34 +0000

Trying to carry out a good thing (neural assistive technology) can open the door for the expansion of oppression (literal thought policing, in ?? years) in the same way that trying to stop a bad thing (terrorism, CSAM) can. It's not an immediate threat, it's a foot in the door.

New comment by mandolingual in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

mandolingual — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:18:29 +0000

Seattle's not really known for noise. The opposite, if anything. Rain (caveat it's not the rain it's the dark and it's mostly mizzle blah blah blah) and traffic though, sure.

New comment by mandolingual in "AI World Clocks"

mandolingual — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:10:21 +0000

Always interesting/uncanny when AI is tested with human cognitive tests https://www.psychdb.com/cognitive-testing/clock-drawing-test.

New comment by mandolingual in "Some people can't see mental images"

mandolingual — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:48:35 +0000

I think it's easier to square the circle about this by focusing on 'internal voice' - For those with an internal voice, where do the words come from? We don't pick them from a conscious word bank (mostly), they arise from the subconscious brain thinking about the topic at hand. So to sever the 'internal voice' step of thinking and go from the sub/semi-conscious to the page is if anything just more efficient. It's interesting to think about what we actually gain from conscious articulation of words and images - the benefits of visualization seem more clear cut(though more limited than non-aphantasia-havers might assume) than internal vocalization.

New comment by mandolingual in "Some people can't see mental images"

mandolingual — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:43:27 +0000

'If you could see a photographic-quality image in your mind, you could answer questions about it the way you’d answer questions about a photograph in front of you'

...yes. I wouldn't describe it as photograph-quality, for me it's fuzzier and lower fidelity than that, but yes.

New comment by mandolingual in "Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire the Top Copyright Official"

mandolingual — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:10:55 +0000

The judicial system rolls up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court is compromised. It's not a matter of weakness.

New comment by mandolingual in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

mandolingual — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:59:34 +0000

"Consciousness" is an overloaded thought killer that swerves all conversation into obfuscated semantic arguments. One person will be talking about 'internality' and self-image (in the testable, mechanical sense that you could argue Chain of Thought models already have in a petty way) and the other will be grappling with the concept of qualia and the ineffable nature of human experience.

New comment by mandolingual in "AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge"

mandolingual — Fri, 16 May 2025 16:40:13 +0000

Questionable value of AI datacenters aside, I'm on board with any push for ramping up more nuclear power.