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New comment by sinuhe69 in "Notes on DeepSeek"

sinuhe69 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:30:33 +0000

The CCP is very active in the matter of AI. In fact, the DeepSeek moment was responsible for Xi calling for a private meeting with tech bosses, including the exiled Alibaba founder Ma. Which is practically unheard of in China politics.

I don't have enough information to say whether the Chinese leadership sees AI "just as the next technology" or they are more cautious due to its double-sword nature. But the immense efforts for building their own AI/GPU chips plus government's billions fund pushed for AI build out, a directive for fast pace integration on large scale and a sweeping national education reform for AI, I don't think it can be seen as similar to other ordinary techs.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-prepares-295-billi...

[1] https://www.globalneighbours.org/en/articles/china-unveils-n...

[2] https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202606/10/content_WS6a296017...

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Notes on DeepSeek"

sinuhe69 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:20:13 +0000

With government billions fund pushed for AI build out, fast pace integration on large scale and sweeping national education reform for AI, I don't think it can be called "died down".

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-prepares-295-billi...

[1] https://www.globalneighbours.org/en/articles/china-unveils-n...

[2] https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202606/10/content_WS6a296017...

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Notes on DeepSeek"

sinuhe69 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:14:17 +0000

I don't get the part of "AI models are not regulated directly, the government instead has restrictions on how those models can be used in software, services". Is it not the same thing? When I chat with DeepSeek about any (Chinese) political/social issue, it immediately begins aligning with the party's line or just cut off the conversation abruptly.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

sinuhe69 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:36:05 +0000

Oh, I just found out that my Google search doesn't show AI summary anymore! I tried many search queries which typically will show an AI summary, but it only flicked on briefly then disappear entirely. Obviously, Google has reacted quickly on this ruling!

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

sinuhe69 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:19:21 +0000

If you care, you certainly can find a lot of information about it nowadays. Of course, whether you want to believe it is another question.

https://youtu.be/FSmtbSYE8pg

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Benchmarks in Leipzig"

sinuhe69 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:01:03 +0000

Did any AI lab sponsor the study? If yes, I believe a note should be included in the paper, just like commercial sponsorship in any other field.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

sinuhe69 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:13:16 +0000

The AI market might not collapse but the stock market could! Even if the AI companies only need to downgrade their investments and a healthy correction is underway, a fire sale of AI-related stocks will bring the stock market to its knees.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

sinuhe69 — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:56:24 +0000

Really? I don't know exactly how long people have been eating oil from olive, flax seed, sesame, coconut or palm nut, but I believe not under 6000–7000 years. But yeah, not the stuff we eat today.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

sinuhe69 — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:44:12 +0000

Zero-GPT says it's human written, with a fairly low score of 11.4% for AI. I think I should mention this, as some people seem to try to kill the piece by branding it AI-ism.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

sinuhe69 — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:37:42 +0000

The US is probably the only country in the world where they put an anti-vaxxer, a conspiracy theorist with no-qualification whatsoever in charge of the public health.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

sinuhe69 — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:03:41 +0000

How did they jump from finding counter-examples (disproof) to a proof?

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

sinuhe69 — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:03:02 +0000

What I miss about Windows 7 is the total control over the system, not the GUI styling. In fact, some features of Windows 10+ are quite handy, for example the desktop tiles, windows corners or build-in virtual desktops. However, on Windows 7 you can set many things independently: windows caption bar size, menu font, message texts etc, which all require tweaking the registry in Windows 10+. Classic 7 is only a styling tool and it will not bring me back these settings and control.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Blaise v0.7.0 (alpha) – Independent of Free Pascal compiler"

sinuhe69 — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:46:15 +0000

It’s certainly a worthy candidate for Free Pascal compiler. But I wish they will go farther by modernizing the language as well. Free Pascal is stuck in the old ages with no list comprehension, lamda or map&reduce. Also parallel and async execution could get a great deal of support to make the language really productive and modern, without sacrificing the famous good readability of Pascal.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion"

sinuhe69 — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:40:17 +0000

No, it doesn't learn or evolve on its own, but rather through humans and a huge data-gathering and training loop. It's aware of the input, but anything resulting from it will be discarded by the next query or restart. Even with all the supporting systems, aka external memory, it can only access and retain an infinitesimally small amount of the information to which it was exposed — a shadow of a shadow of the things themselves.

If you argue that the entire system, including humans, is conscious, then that's a kind of tautology because humans are already conscious. If any, an LLM is only a partial reflection and low dimensional projection of this consciousness.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion"

sinuhe69 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:23:56 +0000

Being conscious is by definition you must be aware of your surrounding. A consequence of this and being intelligent is that by the same definition, you have to be able to learn/to change your "belief". A LLM do not have sensory or any kind of active connections. It's also static in its structure; it can not revise its internal model. So how can it be in any way conscious?

New comment by sinuhe69 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

sinuhe69 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:53:31 +0000

I love writing these short, punchy sentences. It makes the impact much better IMO. But maybe it’s just me.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "The AI Great Leap Forward"

sinuhe69 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:15:34 +0000

The organisation where my wife works ordered all mid-level leaders and above to take a mandatory AI course, mostly remote with two days on-site to present their capstone projects, costing 2x K USD (not including flights). The capstone projects sounded impressive, and the course was celebrated as a resounding success. However, one year later, as far as I know, none of the capstone projects have been implemented, including my wife's and other ones I know of.

Having looked at some of the project descriptions, I realised that they would need to invest far more manpower, special expertise and time if they wanted to implement them with a moderate chance of success.

I believe this is not uncommon in large organisations worldwide.

BTW, it’s great that somebody has drawn a comparison with China’s Great Leap Forward. Not many people know about it and it always serves as a stark reminder of how crazy state-ordered “progress” could be.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

sinuhe69 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:17:31 +0000

“In other words, just like us, the model needs to shift from "exploration" in "fork" mode (divergent thinking to produce a creative solution) to "precision" in "lock" mode (producing syntactically correct code).”

I’d be very cautious of the phrase 'just like us'. Not only can anthropomorphism be misleading and make us see things where none exist, it can also befuddle us, especially when we don’t know much about ourselves.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

sinuhe69 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:40:13 +0000

The longer you converse with the LLM, the more frequent the same keywords will occur and Thu’s they will only strengthen the probabilistic choices of the LLM. The LLM do not exactly follow the instructions like a program would do, nor does it truly understand its role or what its “said”. It looks fine on first tries and short texts, but will drift more the longer the conversation goes. The only way the LLM can maintain the appearance of a normal conversation is to repeatedly feed it with the users requests. We can see it with the shell construct the AI company built around their chat interface.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages"

sinuhe69 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:51:57 +0000

I don’t understand why the authors haven’t written the problems instead of putting up a video? I rather read then watch (who knows how long) videos. Videos it’s a much worse format for information density and took much longer to make properly and up/download.

I mostly skip the videos whenever I can.