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New comment by totetsu in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces"

totetsu — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:23:39 +0000

Hypermentalizing (referred to as excessive theory of mind or biased mindreading) is defined as the tendency to make assumptions about other people's mental states that go beyond observable data.

New comment by totetsu in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

totetsu — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:11:30 +0000

I was recently listening to a podcast about mentalization theory therapy methods for BPD .. for a friend .. Mentalization being the activity of understanding whats going on in other peoples minds, or in ones own. And they idea of pseudomentalizing or "pretend mode" was put forward, where a person looks or sounds like they are .. engaged in mentalizing communication, but are actually checked out. Then I started to think about all the AI slop going around .. and the phenomenon, this meme site is responding to, or AI posting responses.. and I wondered, is this a symptom of.. a global society wide phycological functional deficit, where A) we're none of us communicating as if there is people on the other end.. and B) we're not thinking about our own minds, and taking time to understand things..

[edit] to extend the connections The charm of a messaging board like this is bringing "join attention" to a topic, not just sharing separate monologs.

And also, always wondering if something was written by a human or statistically generated could be seen as Epistemic Hypervigilance, leading to stress, and loss of epistemic trust. This could reduces opportunities for taking on new information of feedback, and cause rigidity and isolation.

New comment by totetsu in "NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions"

totetsu — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:21:27 +0000

"You're right to call me out on that. It's not just a bold move, it's a complete failure to read the room, and honestly, I need to do better."

New comment by totetsu in "Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders"

totetsu — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:04:16 +0000

s/she’s so reviled by New Zealanders/she was targeted by online extremists who threatened her family/

New comment by totetsu in "Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum"

totetsu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:39:23 +0000

“Everything’s a Drum!”

https://eigendrum.com/#s=__Ap66fz1em9-NXp7_6a6-0AJu1AAiTv6gK...

New comment by totetsu in "eigendrum"

totetsu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:30:27 +0000

I didn’t get any sound on an iPhone either

New comment by totetsu in "Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness"

totetsu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:06:42 +0000

It’s good to be weary of any YouTuber. I don’t think he’s a sensationalist. it’s not like he’s saying “don’t listen to those other people, I’ll bring you the -real- info”. And he’s sighting journalists and experts and providing references. When he introduces a framing concept it’s usually from a published book. When other commentators were telling me that big tech was hiding their debts to make their balance sheet look better, he offered a more he offered the more neutral perspective that it’s normal to count purchase agreements that way. But that spreading disclosure of information across so many places so that only the careful notice, leads to partial revelations, where being right doesn’t matter. Which seems a more useful take away than just big tech is being fraudulent about the ai bubble.

New comment by totetsu in "Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness"

totetsu — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:24:31 +0000

https://youtu.be/rE75WvOtcu8 This video from Patrick boyle has a lot of detail.

New comment by totetsu in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

totetsu — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:51:09 +0000

Doesn’t your HAR file have everything an agent would need to send requests to FB as if it was you? I hope it was an aged one.

United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity

totetsu — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:21:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.un.org/en/information-integrity/global-principles

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272013

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by totetsu in "My server is a phone now"

totetsu — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:36:24 +0000

Where did you end up on for “gensoku ni”?

New comment by totetsu in "Building an LLM Agent to Play Dwarf Fortress"

totetsu — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:46:18 +0000

I thought it was just translated with AI..

Building an LLM Agent to Play Dwarf Fortress

totetsu — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:01:06 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.trine.dev/posts/2026-02-28-df-ai-exp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208128

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by totetsu in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

totetsu — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:20:47 +0000

Could it just set up to do like Command | tee -a activity.log | tail -5

So the context only gets a few lines but everything is still logged?

New comment by totetsu in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

totetsu — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:05:29 +0000

And if your in the mood for a hard rain there is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvZmrygK3F0&t=3790s

New comment by totetsu in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

totetsu — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:08:46 +0000

I think you’re making a category error in your definition of politics here. Certainly technologies can favour winners and losers, but the struggle is an inherently human one.

New comment by totetsu in "I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals"

totetsu — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:50:33 +0000

I'm sorry your comments keep getting flagged. a bit ironic given the content. I suppose its not really inline with the decorum of HN. Or maybe HN moderation know better and this is bot account. Anyway. In case that this was a human, thanks for the poetry, and be careful to not become too too disassociated.

New comment by totetsu in "China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines"

totetsu — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:08:34 +0000

do you mean like Xīn Kǎilái 新凯来 "new triumph" could also sound like 芯凯来 "chip triumph" ?

New comment by totetsu in "A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies"

totetsu — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:30:50 +0000

It seems that dropping its own boarder enforcement, is a political lever that the Moroccan government sometimes uses in disputes with Spain. Is that what happened here? And these images of a flood of brown migrants, are useful to a lot of consent manufacturing projects, so are getting amplified?

New comment by totetsu in "Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?"

totetsu — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:24:01 +0000

> "what do we mean when we use the word 'reasoning'"

This is exactly the most interesting and important point. Because the word reason has been subject to so much philosophical debate throughout history, it is very laden with meanings and implications. It sets all kinds of expectations about normativity, objectivity, truth, and humans convincing other humans. To use the word reason for a stochastic generator is misleading.