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New comment by mucha in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

mucha — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:57:54 +0000

Yes, and I can visualize in dreams too.

New comment by mucha in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

mucha — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:19:19 +0000

Yay, I'm one of "these people" now. Aphants can still have inner monologues, and most do. I do.

New comment by mucha in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

mucha — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:07:37 +0000

For folks that are thinking this is just semantics or qualia, the site mentions this:

"We can also see activation in the visual cortex during fMRI studies, the area in the brain that processes images from the eyes, further suggesting actual visualization."

(edited to add) Also, Aphants lack pupil response when asked to imagine dark/bright scenes: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220420092150.h...

New comment by mucha in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

mucha — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:59:50 +0000

Aphantasia and hyperphantasia can be measured. See section 6 here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11437436/

New comment by mucha in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

mucha — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:53:29 +0000

I'd recommend that you gather your thoughts and publish a response to this paper : https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226

New comment by mucha in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

mucha — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:32:24 +0000

The watermark will be encoded in the visible text.

New comment by mucha in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

mucha — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:28:17 +0000

Absolutely! You can avoid the watermarks by writing or rewriting everything yourself.

New comment by mucha in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

mucha — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:13:56 +0000

Adam added a comment to that thread with the 75% number and more context.

AI and Travel Planning: The Case for Human Expertise

mucha — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:53:07 +0000

Article URL: https://archaeology-travel.com/travel-tips/ai-travel-planning-the-case-for-human-expertise/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363056

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mucha in "Vibe coding is mad depressing"

mucha — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:18:04 +0000

LLMs are non-deterministic for everyone. Give it time.

Netflix 'all in' on leveraging AI as the tech creeps into entertainment industry

mucha — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:22:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/netflix-all-in-on-leveraging-ai-in-its-streaming-platform.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45664855

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mucha in "Zions CEO Cautions of 'Yellow Flag' in Private-Credit Market"

mucha — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:12:42 +0000

https://archive.ph/f4s3A

New comment by mucha in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

mucha — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:58:09 +0000

That's actually an ad for X Premium+. No embarrassing ads!

New comment by mucha in "AI Improves at Improving Itself Using an Evolutionary Trick"

mucha — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:43:00 +0000

What Satya says: “I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software,”

First line from the article: In April, Microsoft’s CEO said that artificial intelligence now wrote close to a third of the company’s code.

Software != AI

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...

CNBC misquotes Satya in the same article with his actual quote.

New comment by mucha in "LLM Hallucinations in Practical Code Generation"

mucha — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:02:53 +0000

Interesting. How do existing systems catch Task Requirement hallucinations?

What It's Like to Be 'Mind Blind'

mucha — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:26:29 +0000

Article URL: https://time.com/6155443/aphantasia-mind-blind/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44370659

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mucha in "YouTube star Mikayla Raines dies by suicide, and her husband blames online abuse"

mucha — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:37:25 +0000

It looks like a lot of it was coming from the saveafoxsnark subreddit.

https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1937527595236561090

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GuKLR2IaYAAMziS?format=jpg&name=...

New comment by mucha in "AI Hallucinations: Provably Unsolvable – What Do We Do?"

mucha — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:35:06 +0000

Aphantasia solved hallucinations for me.

AI Hallucinations: Provably Unsolvable – What Do We Do?

mucha — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:35:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-hallucinations-provably-unsolvable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44331194

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by mucha in "From LLM to AI Agent: What's the Real Journey Behind AI System Development?"

mucha — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:39:27 +0000

What happens when the LLM responsible for checking decides to ignore your explicit conditions?