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New comment by tvshtr in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious"

tvshtr — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:33:32 +0000

As I've mentioned somewhere else already and you pointed out; the issue is that consciousness is a loose term and and it's a semantical issue that should be resolved first. It won't be, because the murkiness is beneficial to the corpus, amongst other things. And to your point about the appearance of "consciousness" being enough imho Chiang explains fairly well why it's not.

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

tvshtr — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:07:15 +0000

This is probably a semantic issue seeing as we don't have a widely agreed definition of it. I like to think about it in terms of self-reflective, subjective experience. I'm not even sure if emotions would be a requirement and was surprised to see Chiang so hung up on them. Would he consider humans which can have a variety of mental disorders, causing a complete lack of some of them to not poses consciousness?

New comment by tvshtr in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious"

tvshtr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:49:38 +0000

Is there even an agreed and actionable definition of consciousness? I'm worried that if such a thing existed some humans would fail to measure up.

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

tvshtr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:46:13 +0000

The same thing jumped at me immediately. He should have prefaced this with his definition of consciousness. Moreover the embodiment of LLMs is already happening via robotics, and virtually. Then there's the common counter "but humans are a next word prediction machines too.." (ofc we're more than this, but linguistically we are, and that's the field from which LLMs originate) which is rarely addressed.

New comment by tvshtr in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

tvshtr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:25:04 +0000

Yup, people tend to focus on the upgradability aspect and totally miss the repairability one. My own story is as follows: my panther had an ASUS laptop and extrapolating from previous experiences expected the laptop to function on AC when the battery dies. NO SUCH LUCK! Since it's a hybrid usb-c powered hardware it needed a battery to power up. The process of replacement was so tedious and expensive that we decided to buy the Framework instead. Fool me once...

New comment by tvshtr in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

tvshtr — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:24:44 +0000

The whole suite of Affinity apps is now free (after Canva bought them). For a hobbyist there was never a better time.

New comment by tvshtr in "State of Kdenlive"

tvshtr — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:21:05 +0000

The valuation of The QT company is currently half billion $. That should probably answer your question regarding Qt.

New comment by tvshtr in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

tvshtr — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:47:41 +0000

is ladybird embeddable?

New comment by tvshtr in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

tvshtr — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:43:20 +0000

adding to this Dioxus is working on its native flavour which uses some of the same components Servo uses (check Blitz)

New comment by tvshtr in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element [2019]"

tvshtr — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:34:10 +0000

I have very vivid memories of watching it for the first time in the cinema (original run). I'm pretty sure I still have the ticket. I was spending winter break in the mountains, with some friends, completely snowed in. I bought the soundtrack too (on a cassette tape). Possibly the last decent movie of his.

New comment by tvshtr in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

tvshtr — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:27:06 +0000

Yeah, it really sucks as I really like it, but I've been hitting edge cases which would be solved by some of the PRs mentioned.

New comment by tvshtr in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

tvshtr — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:24:54 +0000

Not possible to do it via component. I've seen various, like custom user shaders or some silly basics like text justify (which is implemented in cosmic-text crate used by gpui). That's why it was forked.

New comment by tvshtr in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

tvshtr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:22:08 +0000

Something like GPUI probably, I would be quite happy with it if it wasn't so tied and restricted by the Zed's team (they reject PRs because they're not strictly related to Zed), there's even mobile fork. Dioxus native would be second, but it's far far far away from being ready.

New comment by tvshtr in "A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear"

tvshtr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:04:45 +0000

From what I've seen recently tinnitus research is moving into completely different direction as it seems related to sleep.

New comment by tvshtr in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

tvshtr — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:58:11 +0000

"Bro, take a look at my poop"

New comment by tvshtr in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

tvshtr — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:57:00 +0000

Some of the blue zones were disproven, due to falsified documentation or lack of it.

New comment by tvshtr in "Show HN: Sunder – A 15MB Rust/Tauri music player for YouTube without the bloat"

tvshtr — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:45:02 +0000

"without the bloat" , uses webengine.

New comment by tvshtr in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

tvshtr — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:25:54 +0000

thanks beejesus! (aka the devs) I'm tired of forcing shit into workspaces just to slightly mitigate these issues

New comment by tvshtr in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

tvshtr — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:51:47 +0000

Surely nobody's using them forks which exist for no reason whatsoever.

New comment by tvshtr in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

tvshtr — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:31:12 +0000

This makes sense because GUI wise Rust isn't really here yet (but it's close).