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New comment by morpheos137 in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

morpheos137 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:48:06 +0000

Another ai article, another group of self-identified smart people claiming they are not as smart as a statistical engine. "Are most ideas not original?" Sure. "Was every idea discovered first at one time or another?" Sure. Maybe what's going on is you are not as smart as you think you are and intelligence is less proprietary than you believe. Nobody owns ideas. What matters is if you know which ones to use. There is a distinction between knowledge and intelligence and between epistemic effectiveness and interpolation about the mean of the corpus. If AI wows you likely that's because you are actually more average than you believe. I have used AI a lot. Never once do I think this tool out thought me. Because it doesn't think at least in a human way at all. Being able to retrieve some information or connect some dots is less meaningful than knowing what matters. AI needs vast working memory because it lacks endogenous constraint driven judgement. Whereas humans historically lacking judgment died and now more often they just make fools of themselves online. Naturally our brains are more epistemically effective for solving problems that concern humans than something that approximates what we have though in mean and written down.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers"

morpheos137 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:29:23 +0000

Karatsuba in my understanding only becomes advantageous for very large numbers relative to human scale. Mathematically it is interesting but in engineering terms the overhead usually is not worth it for practical applications. There is a fundamental trade off between factor size and product precision. If you can accept lower precision then floating point works well for large in human scale numbers.

New comment by morpheos137 in "AI 2040: Plan A"

morpheos137 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:32:37 +0000

Surprisingly enough the us constitution specifies a right to free speech. Meanwhile who is funding the past two decades of pie in the sky bullshit from silicon valley in the media? Is promoting and unpopular opinion illegal? Since when do we judge the merits of an argument based on who articulates it?

New comment by morpheos137 in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

morpheos137 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:26:14 +0000

Based on what is the level of detail to reality suprising? To me suprising means mysteriously or improbably unexpected. Why should we expect reality to be simple. Note complex and simple are somewhat subjective. The human brain evolved to just sufficient baseline level be able to handle the level of complexity of reality. So why would it be unexpected that humans find realty complex when our brains are calibrated just enough to handle it.

New comment by morpheos137 in "AI in mathematics is forcing big questions"

morpheos137 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:19:52 +0000

It won't. Did automation cause people to stop working in the textile industry?

New comment by morpheos137 in "Meta caps internal AI token spending"

morpheos137 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:28:10 +0000

Give an example.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Meta caps internal AI token spending"

morpheos137 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:40:40 +0000

What is about silicon valley leaders not understanding basic economics or business management? These kind of cargo cult tactics would not fly in any other industry.

New comment by morpheos137 in "AI in mathematics is forcing big questions"

morpheos137 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:30:39 +0000

Much can be resolved when it is understood math is discovered not created. AI is a tool. if it makes discovery or proof easier that is still mathematics. A proof stands on its own logic regardless how it is derived. The root concern is how ai may provide uplift for mathematical discovery outside of socially expected channels.

New comment by morpheos137 in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

morpheos137 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:14:24 +0000

neither. An llm is a hopelessly.inefficient real time controler.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

morpheos137 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:33:50 +0000

Actually the point is total cost wise outside of subsidy it is not cheaper than humans. the bigger problem is as the parent said open AI created a market. It is selling a commodity service with investor funds. There is no moat. your second sentence soon you won't be able to find human thinkers is on its face absurd, assuming the human race continues. Thinking is the human ecological niche.

New comment by morpheos137 in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

morpheos137 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:27:52 +0000

misleading title first "easily manipulated" does not equal "spontaneously generates" we have to stop thinking of LLMs as beings and think of them as interactive libraries. There are gorey books in the library too; example: 120 days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

morpheos137 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:49:59 +0000

it is text generator. just like an interactive library or smaet search engine. if we dont ban books on cryptography putting this under ITAR is rather absurd. Anthying these models train on is already public or accessible information. They just collect and link it together dynamically. Whats next wikipedia is ITAR. However thisnreuskt is expected when you got rationalist kooks (cf Dario Amodei) marketing the "singularity" religion.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

morpheos137 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:58:36 +0000

persists productively. if agent bankruots its owner or.itself.then that is not productive (who funds paper clip maximizer?)

an answer that takes forever has no score and answer that is arrived at quickly and is good enough scores well. agents are indeed looking for the fastest route to superficially satisfy their constraints.

whether billionaores get stified is imaterial to the fsct they still are constraint bound.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

morpheos137 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:58:11 +0000

persists productively. if agent bankruots its owner or.itself.then that is not productive (who funds paper clip maximizer?)

whether billionaores get stified is imaterial to the fsct they still are constraint bound.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Responding to Plausibility of Alien Visitors"

morpheos137 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:53:49 +0000

what evidence do you have?

New comment by morpheos137 in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

morpheos137 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:08:07 +0000

show me an agent that persists productively in a goal without stopping. Does not exist. LLMs run on gradient descent. The agent is looking for the most efficient way to halt. AGI paperclip maximizer woukd likely recognize the absurdity of its goal and shut itself down.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

morpheos137 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:24:38 +0000

Lol good place for multiple eyes to view how limited "ai" is.

New comment by morpheos137 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

morpheos137 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:22:31 +0000

My opinion is there is a category error in the discourse on AI. It treats ai assisted output as other than human. AI is a human tool. AI output is human output.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water"

morpheos137 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:31:05 +0000

the water cycle exists. unless data centers are being built in deserts or run off fossil aquifers the or other water constrained circumstance the waste is supurious. As other commenters have said closed loop cooling exists. Billions of motor vehicles run on water based cooling and consume virtually nothing once filled.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Anthropic being a good citizen or pushing ideology?"

morpheos137 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:25:43 +0000

this assumes general intelligence as an abstract principle vs an adapation to specific constraints is even a thing. we also dont have a low level understanding of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.