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New comment by uh_uh in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

uh_uh — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:49:27 +0000

I wasn't trying to link the two. Just pointed out that there seems to be a lot of unknowns on the map.

New comment by uh_uh in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

uh_uh — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:34:48 +0000

> It's what having such senses feels like from the inside; the first-person view.

The hard problem is that there is such a feeling at all.

New comment by uh_uh in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

uh_uh — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:28:26 +0000

Isn't there a magical moment needed still when a single qubit "touches" the rest of the universe?

New comment by uh_uh in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

uh_uh — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:24:50 +0000

I'd say we are confused about both the lowest (quantum) and highest level (consciousness) phenomena of the known Universe. Quite humbling.

New comment by uh_uh in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

uh_uh — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:30:57 +0000

Would you be similarly pedantic if a high-schooler did the same?

New comment by uh_uh in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

uh_uh — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:28:59 +0000

OK, but don't you see where this is going? The trajectory that we're on?

New comment by uh_uh in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

uh_uh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:24:10 +0000

How so?

New comment by uh_uh in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

uh_uh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:31:04 +0000

> Because remember, Apple doesn't usually invent new products. It takes proven ones and then makes its own much nicer version.

Funny seeing this repeated again in response to Siri which is just... not very good.

New comment by uh_uh in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

uh_uh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:30:56 +0000

The other day I heard ChatGBD.

New comment by uh_uh in "UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs"

uh_uh — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:01:05 +0000

There will always be a way out if you are dedicated enough. They "just" want to make it unviable for most of the population.

New comment by uh_uh in "You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass"

uh_uh — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:57:57 +0000

Couple years ago you could have made the same argument about talking computers and here we are.

New comment by uh_uh in "You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass"

uh_uh — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:56:35 +0000

If you own AGI, human workers are worse than zero. They become an active threat that can kill you.

New comment by uh_uh in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

uh_uh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:34:16 +0000

I don't think this is true at all. There are multiple sources talking about how the mutation rate is context-dependent.

New comment by uh_uh in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

uh_uh — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:35:27 +0000

I think you are psychoanalyzing me a little bit too much. Am I allowed to say that I'm an atheist and I don't believe in intelligent design, or are you going to explain to me that I'm confused about my own beliefs?

New comment by uh_uh in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

uh_uh — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:37:04 +0000

I have little patience for intelligent-design and the likes, if that's what you are getting at.

All I'm saying is that blind enumeration of mutations seems combinatorially infeasible due to the vastness of the search space. It is already known that mutation bias exists, so what I'm saying shouldn't be that controversial.

New comment by uh_uh in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

uh_uh — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:03:36 +0000

> It's not just planet-scale, it's universe-scale. Lots of planets conduct the experiment, ours just happens to have resulted in intelligence.

My argument doesn't depend on the existence of an intelligent species on the planet. The problem already arises when there are multiple species on ONE planet. If you calculate the pure combinatorial distance between the DNA of 2 species, you must find that you can't just brute force your way from one to the other before the heat-death of the universe. This is why mutation bias exists: not all mutations are equally likely, evolution favours some kinds over others.

New comment by uh_uh in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

uh_uh — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:52:17 +0000

Let's take human DNA as an example. It contains 3.2B GTCA base pairs. This gives rise to 4^3.2B possible combos. It's just not possible to navigate this space blindly. There is not enough atoms in the universe to do that. It is known that there is bias in what mutations are favoured.

New comment by uh_uh in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

uh_uh — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:06:48 +0000

I find it hard to believe that evolution is completely blind. The search space that it can explore via mutations is astronomically large. Considering that the experiment is run at planet-scale over billions of years doesn't really save the argument as it takes some specimen years to develop and get feedback on their fitness. It's hard to believe that it's truly just random "bit-flips".

I'm not trying to suggest woo here, but there has to be some mechanisms to constrain the search space somewhat.

New comment by uh_uh in "SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image"

uh_uh — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:56:12 +0000

"Hidden" or "latent" in a context like this just means variables that the algo is trying to infer because it doesn't have direct access to them.

New comment by uh_uh in "Claude outage"

uh_uh — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:45:21 +0000

Exactly, these agentic coding tools which operate on your codebase present on your own disk are a lot more fungible than most SaaS.