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New comment by netfortius in "Are we sleepwalking into World War III?"

netfortius — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:11:55 +0000

https://app.ft.com/content/3a56575e-ecfb-4fa9-af70-01aebd869...

New comment by netfortius in "You could have invented transformers from memory"

netfortius — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:52:22 +0000

Interesting. In his own paper:

INSIDE EVERY WHITE BOX THERE ARE TWO BLACK BOXES TRYING TO GET OUT’ by Ranulph Glanville Portsmouth Polytechnic, England

The nature of the blackness of a black box (when an observer does not know what is going on inside the black box) and its whiteness (when an observer believes that he knows what is going on inside the black box) is considered and is applied to a description that is built by an observer of that black box. It is shown that while whiteness may be believed to have been reached within a system, such a system, nevertheless, remains black on the outside. This understanding is considered because it sheds light not only on black boxes and knowledge, but also on certain very basic cybernetic and broad psychological concepts.

KEYWORDS:conceptual system, individual, behavior, black box, white box, cybernetics, feedback, input, output, Object, self-reproduction.

the reference is:

Glanville, R. What is memory that it can remember what it is? In R. Trappl, (Ed.), Progress in and systems research (vol. 4). Washington, D.C.: Hemisphere, 1978.(c)

Also here: https://constructivist.info/radical/papers/glanville/glanvil...

[7] R. Glanville "What is Memory, that it can remember wheat it is?" in R. Trappl (ed.) "Progress in Cybernetics and Systems Research Vol 4", Washington DC, Hemisphere, 1978

... very odd ...

New comment by netfortius in "You could have invented transformers from memory"

netfortius — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:23:41 +0000

Funny how age shows up in some cases. For me the first thing that came to mind, when starting to read the article, was Ranulph Glanville's 1978: "What is memory that it can remember what it is?" (Progress in cybernetics and systems research - vol 4)

New comment by netfortius in "The most life-changing books, statistically"

netfortius — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:46:40 +0000

WTF is with all these substack articles? If someone thinks the content is so important to share, then provide a summary of crucial points justifying the title and the few rows available for free.

Or just refrain.

US is reviving shuttered nuclear plants for (possibly) data centers demand

netfortius — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:43:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/iowa/articles/2026-10-16/us-is-reviving-shuttered-nuclear-plants-to-meet-growing-electricity-demand-and-to-power-data-centers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121709

Points: 4

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New comment by netfortius in "The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)"

netfortius — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:03:04 +0000

This reminded me of the work of Maturana and the concept of autopoiesis

New comment by netfortius in "Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?"

netfortius — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:40:15 +0000

Title too long. "Why aren't Americans rising up?" is more appropriate ;-)

New comment by netfortius in "Anthropic AI Model Went Rogue, Submitted Fake Unsolved Murder Tip"

netfortius — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:47:43 +0000

https://archive.ph/IRlA0

New comment by netfortius in "Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal"

netfortius — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:43:06 +0000

There is no coming back from all this, is it?

Ask HN: What happens when AI writes a Bible ver 2.0, geared toward its interest?

netfortius — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:10:56 +0000

As any scripture is some sort of "manual" for each belief, and also assists in domestication of followers of religion, what prevents AI to eventually produce a version 2.0 for each major religion, this time modified to support its "own" objectives?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957917

Points: 5

# Comments: 7

New comment by netfortius in "America.gov"

netfortius — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:58:18 +0000

Interesting functionality - can't quite grasp it yet [1]

[1] https://ibb.co/vC85zRmZ

New comment by netfortius in "The reason children no longer enjoy reading"

netfortius — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:13:49 +0000

https://archive.ph/6lkOL

The reason children no longer enjoy reading

netfortius — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:12:32 +0000

Article URL: https://spectator.com/article/the-real-reason-children-no-longer-enjoy-reading/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789199

Points: 7

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New comment by netfortius in "Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance"

netfortius — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:22:56 +0000

He denied being a nihilist, himself, multiple times, as well as those having studied his work. He was an extreme sceptic.

New comment by netfortius in "Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance"

netfortius — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:41:30 +0000

Cioran claimed to have been able to avoid killing himself by fully embracing the idea of suicide.

New comment by netfortius in "Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance"

netfortius — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:15:27 +0000

Harvard study authors never read Emil Cioran.

New comment by netfortius in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

netfortius — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:02:44 +0000

It's been over 25-30 years since we've been using honeytokens as means to track data of all sorts showing up in places it shouldn't exist. Why isn't research material embedding such?

New comment by netfortius in "Learn Programming with OCaml"

netfortius — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:05:26 +0000

The French original version of the book appears to be 12 years old (2014). Is the English translation linked here a somehow more up to date book?

New comment by netfortius in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

netfortius — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:58:21 +0000

Is this getting out of control, or is it "business as usual"?

New comment by netfortius in "Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)"

netfortius — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:56:07 +0000

> That being said, I am not sure what's the killer application for this technology...

Build it, and they will come ;)