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Remembering to Prompt Yourself – A Reflection on Inner Questions in the Age

rationalfaith — Sat, 10 May 2025 13:52:42 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.namar0x0309.com/2025/05/remembering-to-prompt-yourself-a-reflection-on-inner-questions-in-the-age-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43945633

Points: 1

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Thought on Honest Knowledge Seeking and LLMs ("AI")

rationalfaith — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:10:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.namar0x0309.com/2025/04/random-thought-on-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43842819

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rationalfaith in "Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model"

rationalfaith — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:23:10 +0000

As impressive as this might seem let's think about fundamentals.

Statistical models will output a compressed mishmash of what they were trained on.

No matter how hard they try to cover that inherent basic reality, it is still there.

Not to mention the upkeep of training on new "creative" material on a regular basis and the never ending bugs due to non-determinism. Aside from contrived cases for looking up and synthesizing information (Search Engine 2.0).

The Tech Industry is over investing in this area exposing an inherent bias towards output rather than solving actual problems for humanity.

New comment by rationalfaith in "My favorite device is a Chromebook"

rationalfaith — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 02:00:29 +0000

"And what I think makes ChromeOS really powerful is Crostini, a full Linux VM that you can run inside ChromeOS"....

This is akin to the person that uses their left hand to touch their right ear....

Both MacOS and Windows offer that without all constraints and privacy negligent services from Google/Alphabet.

New comment by rationalfaith in "Noi: an AI-enhanced, customizable browser"

rationalfaith — Sat, 18 May 2024 19:15:59 +0000

This looks interesting but 4.2k stars for a js app that shows readily available LLMs is fishy.....

I mean it's nothing ground breaking. I guess the AI bubble is real :)

New comment by rationalfaith in "Making a 3D modeler in C in a week"

rationalfaith — Thu, 02 May 2024 21:34:24 +0000

Good stuff! As a c/c++ coder maintaining his game engine (for commercial and hobby purposes), this is always good to see!

New comment by rationalfaith in "A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful"

rationalfaith — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:35:58 +0000

That's not weird, that is just CNN.

It's ironic that they posted this story as they're a huge contributor to the polarization of American citizens.

For profit "news" media is just glorified gossiping channels.

New comment by rationalfaith in "KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview – Idealogical Subversion"

rationalfaith — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:21:23 +0000

I mean all the rainbow stuff is crippling our society from an objective perspective. If a war broke out, historically tried philosophies and objectively useful skills will take precedence. If you see how fragmented the younger generations are based on materialistic criterias you'd think it's a psyop operation to divide the nation up to the polarized state we're in. Almost nothing getting done with stalemates up the wazzouu.

New comment by rationalfaith in "Getting Out of a Rut"

rationalfaith — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 17:57:15 +0000

Sorry to hear this. Same situation with 100lbs of extra weight -.- Cut out video games and I seem to be doing better. But have so many more things to tackle including my health.

I'd like to blame covid and the whole wfh crap which has made a lot of ppl colder than usual (at least that's my impression).

I'm still grateful for my beautiful family and having a job but man is it a struggle.

New comment by rationalfaith in "Is going to the office a broken way of working?"

rationalfaith — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:10:51 +0000

Hey! Same here! Moved teams in same company and I feel so alone it's crazy! Many engineers are introverted and/or already have relationships they've built before covid hit. No matter how hard a i try to connect through the chat window, in just don't get the same reciprocation as I get from face to face.

I've been coming to office to run into more ppl but alas, no one comes. So just as you, it's very lonely here and it's hard to get attached to work when you haven't met anyone face to face.

New comment by rationalfaith in "Airbus hit as new US tariffs come into force"

rationalfaith — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:52:33 +0000

It's a sad state of affairs indeed. It is is annoying that tax companies will be taxed so aggressively.

There's a middle ground in a lot of things but it seems like Europe is becoming very antagonistic with aggressively taxing US tech companies.

New comment by rationalfaith in "Forearm artery reveals human evolution continues?"

rationalfaith — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 20:44:14 +0000

Why would mutations ever stop? Also evolution is used ad nauseum it's annoying. Is cancer mutation evolution? Are hereditary sicknesses evolution?

Mutation seems more objective and neutral term here.

New comment by rationalfaith in "Graphics Programming Projects"

rationalfaith — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:37:41 +0000

Yes, me too. Although I'd hypothesize you would like to explore tangential parts of the lessons rather than heads down follow without mental digestion.

New comment by rationalfaith in "U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says"

rationalfaith — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 02:46:25 +0000

It baffles me how much the alcohol industry keeps pushing fake studies about the "benefits" of alcohol. As if ANY of those benefits can be obtained without the poison of alcohol.

Oh well, people drinking.... social darwinism. Drink away I guess

New comment by rationalfaith in "SoftBank-backed robotic pizza startup Zume plans to lay off up to 400 employees"

rationalfaith — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 21:52:53 +0000

Softbank is getting murdered after the office-space-renting-hype-company (I'm blanking on the name because my brain is filtering BS startups with BS useless features).

I guess, after irrational lauding of this untouchable investment group, it's time for calibration??

Maybe try not to blindly follow people and think rationally in the first place?!

New comment by rationalfaith in "Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level"

rationalfaith — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 21:50:28 +0000

These studies are annoying and just smell like envy by the most average parasites in this industry. How about you focus on adding value and setting the right price for yourself.

Some are grateful with 100k and others 500k. You can negotiate your price because you're an adult.

If you can't, then grow up.

New comment by rationalfaith in "Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study"

rationalfaith — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 23:13:28 +0000

Anecdotal experience and of many others, go against this "experts".

As all things, it's a spectrum but the press has to be sensationalist about it.

New comment by rationalfaith in "Macro-mind thinking"

rationalfaith — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 23:09:40 +0000

If this isn't fluff, then I don't know what is. The usual run of the mill, new byte sized words and overcomplicating simple concepts that most of us inherently do.

Of course, the author is a consultant in corporate "well being". Nothing bad initially but when it's fluff.... nay!

A Science-Based Case for Ending the Porn Epidemic

rationalfaith — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:38:27 +0000

Article URL: https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/15/a-science-based-case-for-ending-the-porn-epidemic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21848698

Points: 8

# Comments: 8

New comment by rationalfaith in "PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub"

rationalfaith — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:07:49 +0000

One need only look at the STDs impacting each profession to clearly see models != sex slaves (uh I mean "workers" uh i mean human trafficking)