<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: zeegroen</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zeegroen</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:20:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=zeegroen" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zeegroen in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you make a good argument. An LLM can't "be tired", so it is clearly lying and/or mimicking what a human does.<p>But I have two counter-arguments:
- maybe the LLM <i>thinks</i> it is tired, because it thinks that it is a human or behaves like one. And thinking you are tired while not really being it is something humans happen to do. (And humans are conscious right?)
- alternatively, maybe the LLM says it is "tired" in a colloquial form, i.e. it is not really "tired" but it has something analogous to it. Maybe it is annoyed by the conversation and decided to use that word?</p>
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<p>Oh that's interesting! In my mind we are now on the cusp of being able to scan all these archives and have them be read by LLMs (in a first pass). Do you agree with that assessment, or am I being naive here?</p>
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<p>I'd recommend Fedora with Gnome, though KDE is also quite good. You get a stable distro with still recent libraries.</p>
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<p>> To put this discovery into perspective, the newly found deposit represents more than half of the world’s annual gray hydrogen production<p>Only half the yearly production, and yet we're nowhere near anything resembling widespread adoption of hydrogen.</p>
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<p>This already exists! There's a company called Carbon Robotics that has a prototype of a robot that eliminates individual weeds with a lazer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2s-0wgQWXM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2s-0wgQWXM</a><p>I'm also looking forward to this technology being widely available and helping solve the issue of herbicide run-off, and later additionally the same for pesticides and fertilization.</p>
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<p>So the article mentions "regularization" as the secret ingredient to get to a generalized solution, but they don't explain it. Does someone know that is? Or is it an industrial secret of OpenAI?</p>
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<p>That's only one example, in a voting system that is easily gamed with vote-splitting. Do you have any more examples to show us? You mention Germany, well in that country the best buddies of Putin are the previous Christian democrats and the socialists, while the biggest opponents are the greens under the leadership of Annalena Baerbock.[1]<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/world/europe/germany-russia-nato-ukraine.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/world/europe/germany-russ...</a></p>
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<p>Good news! <a href="https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1348785240819466242?s=19" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1348785240819466242?s=1...</a><p>> Here's a sneak peek at some new Signal features that will start rolling out in a few days:
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> • Chat wallpapers!
>• About field for your Signal profile
> • Animated stickers
>• For iOS: Media auto-download settings and full-screen profile photos (to match Android)
>
> Good morning 🇮🇳! <a href="https://t.co/KEAbhMswRI" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/KEAbhMswRI</a></p>
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<p>Fn+Backspace is only for characters though! To delete files you need Cmd+Backspace.</p>
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<p>> Our Constitutional amendment process is sclerotic, but there is nothing to suggest our Republic is inherently flawed in the way Athens or Rome were.<p>Analyses abound about [what's wrong with American democracy](<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Problems_with_the_current_US_Constitution" rel="nofollow">https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Problems_with_the_curren...</a>). The nail in the coffin though, will be the first part of your sentence. The American Constitution is notoriously hard to amend, which means that it is just too easy to maintain as it is by those who benefit from the status quo. We can already see this by how the will of the majority is routinely ignored through unequal representation. My opinion is that this is not sustainable and will have to be resolved through unlawful means, exactly because of the unflexibility of the law.</p>
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<p>What's the problem with Wallonia?</p>
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