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New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT"

xyzsparetimexyz — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:00:25 +0000

Faith and psychosis are not the same thing.

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it"

xyzsparetimexyz — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:39:22 +0000

Regardless of anything else going on with people with Alzheimer's, there's plenty of activity in their brains. Even in a dead person, the cells and atoms that make up a brain change state. LLM weights do not change. At all.

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it"

xyzsparetimexyz — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:58:22 +0000

One thing I haven't seen brought up much is that LLMs are basically stateless. To be conscious requires the ability for internal state to change. The weights dont change at all, but the rng seed and input/output text do. We're not seriously arguing that the text itself is the conscious part are we?

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control"

xyzsparetimexyz — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:21:28 +0000

Its not

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

xyzsparetimexyz — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:18:17 +0000

Okay. But what is the perceiver? That thing is real if nothingelse is.

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

xyzsparetimexyz — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:15:08 +0000

I believe that consciousness works as a layer of systems. The lowest systems react fastest but to a small, well known set of stimuli. More unexpected stimuli trigger higher layers until really unexpected things trigger the slowest, full conscious layer for deep decision making. Hence why you can feel like you're on autopilot when you're doing something you're experienced in such as driving. It's resllt a system designed to cope with a world that changes too fast to get engrained in our genes.

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "I'm never buying another Kindle"

xyzsparetimexyz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:11:41 +0000

I bought a kobo years ago, never updated it, never connected it to wifi, never bought a book for it, just download epubs and write them to it via calibre

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "The Theory of Interstellar Trade [pdf] (1978)"

xyzsparetimexyz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:08:28 +0000

This is about interest charges which is faily boring, but the book Critical Mass has some interesting comments on economics of materials in translunar space. Compared to materials on Earth, the value of materials (e.g. for construction) is entirely dependent on their position (and orbit). 100 tons of packed lunar regolith is worthless on the lunar surface, but would be highly valuable in a medium earth orbit where it could be used to construct quite a large hull via chemical vapor deposition.

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

xyzsparetimexyz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:16:25 +0000

Better title: One Dispatch After Another

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

xyzsparetimexyz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:44:34 +0000

The minute you institute UBI, everyone working a shit, low paying job such as trash collection is gone. You're going to have big problems if those jobs are not immediately supplanted by AI

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Hong Kong Disneyland Speedrun Guide"

xyzsparetimexyz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:07:08 +0000

Way more fun and interesting than 99% of the posts on here

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "I've sold out"

xyzsparetimexyz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000

At least its this and not a book i actually care about. I shudder to think of a world where all the tech companies are called like 'Ghola', 'Giedi Prime', 'Heighliner', 'Harkonnen' etc

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "I've sold out"

xyzsparetimexyz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:30:02 +0000

The ear endil website runs at like 2fps on my phone. Still have no idea what the company does

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

xyzsparetimexyz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:06:47 +0000

Theyre travelling to a region of space where the moons gravity is more important than the earths though. I think that counts

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Alex Karp says only trade workers and neurodivergents will survive in the AI era"

xyzsparetimexyz — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:43:11 +0000

Like Blindsight/Echopraxia

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Show HN: Fio: 3D World editor/game engine – inspired by Radiant and Hammer"

xyzsparetimexyz — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:52:55 +0000

Nobody uses BSPs for draw optimization. We have culling and depth buffer techniques for that now

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

xyzsparetimexyz — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:46:02 +0000

Canadian Pesos?

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Too Much Color"

xyzsparetimexyz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:19:03 +0000

> But they do exist

Do they?

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "AirPods Max 2"

xyzsparetimexyz — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:47:47 +0000

$550?? Does it even come with a gold plated cable for smoother electrons?

New comment by xyzsparetimexyz in "Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager"

xyzsparetimexyz — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:18:59 +0000

Vagueposting is a serious offence