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New comment by mmustapic in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"

mmustapic — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:24:39 +0000

Exactly, the dog was cloned in the US

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

mmustapic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:22:30 +0000

The funny example from a few months ago asked chatgpt 5.2 if one should walk to the car wash because it’s close by, and it answered yes. This shows that it is in fact sentence continuation and not real intelligence or consciousness (whatever that may be). Even the reasoning model answered the same.

New comment by mmustapic in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

mmustapic — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:23:06 +0000

BE-4, this rocket’s engine, is not a full flow engine.

New comment by mmustapic in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

mmustapic — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:58:25 +0000

It's not a cheap shot at all. OP is asking why the government is using tax payer money to finance air shows instead of healthcare, regardless of free markets and business regulations. In fact, there could be less air shows (and thus less aircraft losses) and lower taxes.

New comment by mmustapic in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

mmustapic — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:59:59 +0000

The brain uses a lot less energy than an LLM, so most probably it is something completely different. Maybe consciousness is a byproduct of the architecture of the brain, so there is no version of a humanoid with no consciousness.

New comment by mmustapic in "CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome"

mmustapic — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:28:23 +0000

If you wouldn’t, why would a big chunk of the population do it? And if they did it, so what? Why is blonde and blue eyes bad?

Btw, I also wouldn’t if I could choose.

New comment by mmustapic in "CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome"

mmustapic — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:36:16 +0000

Would you pick blond hair, blue eyes for your kids? Would black people pick it? Asian?

New comment by mmustapic in "Trump says US will blockade Strait of Hormuz"

mmustapic — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:59:40 +0000

Several cruise missiles where fired at the school specifically. And anyways, “we didn’t really want to bomb the school” is a sorry excuse.

New comment by mmustapic in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

mmustapic — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:21:21 +0000

Having qemm386 solved the issue. I think MSDOS 6 had something like it too.

New comment by mmustapic in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

mmustapic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:38:18 +0000

Why should the US intervene in a bombing campaign against Iran if the problem is between Hamas and Israel?

New comment by mmustapic in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

mmustapic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:29:50 +0000

I said that if the US hadn’t intervened in the war then the school wouldn’t have been bombed, and you switched to Hamas and Israel.

New comment by mmustapic in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

mmustapic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:46:34 +0000

So what does the US have to do with this?

New comment by mmustapic in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

mmustapic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:29:49 +0000

But I can't have the weights of the LLM model I'm using for this.

New comment by mmustapic in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

mmustapic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:09:31 +0000

The issue was starting an unnecessary war. When you did, then all the deaths are on you.

New comment by mmustapic in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

mmustapic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:08:51 +0000

The US attacked Iran because Israel was going to do so anyway. If they didn't attack, that missile wouldn't have killed 150 schoolgirls. Sure, the target was a mistake, but mistakes happen when you shoot thousands of missiles and drop thousands of bombs. If they had not attacked, the girls would be alive.

New comment by mmustapic in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

mmustapic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:03:45 +0000

The one I like better is: software is great at playing chess, doesn't mean you cannot play too

New comment by mmustapic in "I quit. The clankers won"

mmustapic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:00:44 +0000

No, the free software movement wants that the source code of the software you use be available to you to modify it if you wish. AI does not necessarily do that.

New comment by mmustapic in "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

mmustapic — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:46:30 +0000

The Voodoo was fast but also expensive, and you needed an additional VGA card. I think it was around USD 300 back then, that's more than USD 600 today and you'll still need another card.

New comment by mmustapic in "AI (2014)"

mmustapic — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:11:40 +0000

You are only thinking about people and creativity in the workplace. Creativity can be applied anywhere: cooking, a new route on your way to somewhere, read some random paragraphs in a book that spawns new thoughts, a new game with a child, optimize the way you paint the walls on your house, choose the plants in your garden (and how you'll water them), do a doodle, try or buy a new outfit, typing this paragraph in response to your message (kinda LLM-y maybe).

New comment by mmustapic in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

mmustapic — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:33:04 +0000

What you mention is true, but Lego sets are (almost always) very well designed, specially the ones for kids.