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

search_facility — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:05:14 +0000

It's the opposite, engineers do know. Claiming otherwise is way too generous and over confident.

I mean between this two "knowings" the Claude inner workings are much more clear for engineers, including many side effects, alternatives, custom shortcuts in processing etc. It's a magic only for people looking at it as black box

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

search_facility — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:57:28 +0000

Well, at the very least we have a base to distinct different kinds then.

Probably the main problem of people implying LLM consciousness is that they imply LLM have human-kind of consciousness. Judging only on "how they speak", generally, they insist on using the same word that labels human consciousness (exclusively), etc.

But there are so many instrinic differences that such claim is not feasible despite similar "talking abilities".

New comment by search_facility in "Rethinking search as code generation"

search_facility — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:59:58 +0000

It is useful, so yes

New comment by search_facility in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

search_facility — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:49:56 +0000

MOE basically work that way already, QWEN/etc with low active params (A-number in name) allows to inference big models locally (only active params have to fit into memory)

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

search_facility — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:21:43 +0000

With both cases the agent doing something is human. And human beings are indeed conscious. Outside human needs LLM are useless.

Math, as a tool, is just a proxy for people using LLMs, as well as GPUs spending cycles on calculating the math

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

search_facility — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:53:41 +0000

> weak reasoning once you get off the beaten path

Yep. And LLM engeneers improving this issues see perfect correlation with only one thing - data quality and quantity through training pipeline. LLM internals are secondary on many metrics for improving that

Humanity just reached the point where collective accessible knowledge covers semi-full perturbations of all main concepts that human consiousness ever produced, with additional associative expanding (math handles this). Full perturbations with current communication complexity are written down and recorded one way or another, LLMs just capitalizing on that tipping point, imho

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

search_facility — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:36:08 +0000

Math used in LLMs is perfectly reducible and Gödel have nothing to do with it - inside commonly used axioms (which sufficient for LLM to exist and outside of Kurt Gödel scope) there are ZERO questions/uncertainties how it works, it's just a fact :)

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

search_facility — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:31:13 +0000

+100, companies certainly have direct interest in pumping asset evaluation, and emotional attachment is financial valuable thing. Emotional attachment sells better than xxx this days

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

search_facility — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:37:14 +0000

Imho no, math itself have no conciousness. Quite confidently its a helpful tool that does not act by himself.

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

search_facility — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:28:41 +0000

I can not simulate my brain, it's a huge stretch to imply this.

But with LLMs - anyone can simulate LLM. LLM can be simulated without any uncertainties in pen and paper and a lot of time. Does it mean that 100 tons of paper plus 100 years of time (numbers are just examples) calculating long formulae makes this pile of paper consiousness? Imho answer is definitive no.

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

search_facility — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:56:12 +0000

Since the times GPT-2 was reimplemented inside Minecraft - its quite obvious LLMs are just math. Nothing else, by nature. Modern LLMs have the same math as in GPT-2 - just bigger and with extra stuff around - and math is the only area of human knowledge with perfect flawless reductionism, straight to the roots. It was build that way since the beginning, so philosophy have no say in this :) And because of that flawless reductionism, complexity adds nothings to the nature of math things, this is how math working by design - so it can be proven there are no anything like consciousness simply because conciousness was not implented in the first place, only perfect mimicry.

And the real secret is in the data, not math. Math (and LLMs running it through billions of weights) is just a tool.

New comment by search_facility in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

search_facility — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:13:05 +0000

With current standartization the issue of "page not working on non-Chrome browser" is non-existent. Thanks god nowadays everything (pages) work everywhere in very similar manner, I am using chrome, firefox, safary and opera and have zero problems last 5+ years. Old days are gone.

New comment by search_facility in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

search_facility — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:37:10 +0000

But on the other hand, adding LLM with strong guards (not yet here but doable for popular attack vectors) into the human loop can drastically eliminate insider factor, imho.

New comment by search_facility in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

search_facility — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:45:19 +0000

probably 8M params are too much even :)

New comment by search_facility in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

search_facility — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:11:30 +0000

Well, this is a business model, not a coincidence... They are in the battle of selling fresh hardware each and every year consistenly

New comment by search_facility in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

search_facility — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:01:25 +0000

Exactly!

New comment by search_facility in "A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source"

search_facility — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:13:20 +0000

Interesting! Can it be used in Google Colab to open temporary access to python server? NGROK can be attached this way in 6 lines of code

New comment by search_facility in "You gotta think outside the hypercube"

search_facility — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:12:14 +0000

biology plays the role, certainly, but nature was trying to capture a model for 3D physical interactions first of all, physics first. And final choice of two 2D sensors is explicitly optimal and minimally effective for 3D - so it can not be similarly descriptive for 4D, just not fair to expect results on same level imho.

For meaningful 4D perception on similar level our body need three volumetric sensors, separated, to define volume with 4D direction

New comment by search_facility in "You gotta think outside the hypercube"

search_facility — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:49:03 +0000

Our 3D visualization relies havily on photons doing the heavy lifting of traversing 3D space in straight lines, people get, you know, accustomed to it. In fact how we see things is frozen by physics, not brains - they are just accommodated to reality

There are no such utility particles doing any heavy lifting in 4D, so nothing to accommodate to.

New comment by search_facility in "Why can't transformers learn multiplication?"

search_facility — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 08:13:18 +0000

Interesting research, but it is still fascinates me why AI devs of current SOTAs ignore possibility to add numbers as first-grade citizens to AI. like for example suggested here: https://huggingface.co/papers/2502.09741

clean separation matter, it’s really strange to force models to mimic numbers and math via incredibly unfit token-mangling stuff, imho