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New comment by zxcb1 in "Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations"

zxcb1 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:34:05 +0000

No, it's the equivalent of when a human refuses to answer — psychological defenses; for example, uncertainty leading to excessive cognitive effort in order to solve a task or overcome a challenge.

Examples of ending the conversation:

  - I don't know
  - Leaving the room
  - Unanswered emails

Since Claude doesn't lie (HHH), many other human behaviors do not apply.

New comment by zxcb1 in "A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs"

zxcb1 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:54:31 +0000

LLMs are complex irreducible systems; hence there are emergent properties that arise at different scales

New comment by zxcb1 in "Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately"

zxcb1 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:20:28 +0000

Translation Between Modalities is All You Need

~2028

New comment by zxcb1 in "Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th"

zxcb1 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:17:55 +0000

Solution: Buy physical books, then clone at home.

New comment by zxcb1 in "Show HN: Lume – OS lightweight CLI for MacOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon"

zxcb1 — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:13:15 +0000

I read GPU and USB passthrough somewhere and did not believe it

New comment by zxcb1 in "Der Spiegel Proclaims the End of the West"

zxcb1 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:21:52 +0000

Financialization — financial capitalism is not productive, it's extractive; eventually the host succumbs.

China, on the other hand ...

New comment by zxcb1 in "EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing"

zxcb1 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:59:50 +0000

Yes, and Azov are / were only ultranationalists, not neo-Nazis; it's all very postmodern

New comment by zxcb1 in "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024"

zxcb1 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:07:24 +0000

I, for one, am waiting for the field of economics to be colonized by AI folks

New comment by zxcb1 in "EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing"

zxcb1 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:06:35 +0000

“One of the most audacious acts of sabotage in modern history, the operation worsened an energy crisis in Europe—an assault on critical infrastructure that could be considered an act of war under international law.”

Which other potential terrorists are they looking for?

New comment by zxcb1 in "EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing"

zxcb1 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:55:01 +0000

The Nord Stream incident is attributed to Ukrainian ultranationalists by the WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...)

My personal pre-crime assessment is that a failed Ukraine would be devastating for the security of EU member states.

New comment by zxcb1 in "Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers"

zxcb1 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 18:42:31 +0000

Ask AI

https://x.com/stephen_wolfram/status/1762286847567495414

New comment by zxcb1 in "Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers"

zxcb1 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:59:58 +0000

Why isn't this considered a solved problem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_irreducibility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperiodic_tiling

New comment by zxcb1 in ""Superintelligence" 10 years later"

zxcb1 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:26:43 +0000

The corporation as superintelligence — NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon

Fortunately, none of these qualify as paperclip maximizers

New comment by zxcb1 in ""Superintelligence" 10 years later"

zxcb1 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:35:52 +0000

Norbert Wiener was ahead of his time in recognizing the potential danger of emergent intelligent machines. I believe he was even further ahead in recognizing that the first artificial intelligences had already begun to emerge. He was correct in identifying the corporations and bureaus that he called "machines of flesh and blood" as the first intelligent machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible_Minds

New comment by zxcb1 in "Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR"

zxcb1 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 05:28:52 +0000

Don't do that; use your AI, ask Claude for example

New comment by zxcb1 in "Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR"

zxcb1 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:54:58 +0000

When we say open X, we expect something like the Via Negativa principle; instead of inviting members into a closed community, exclude those that violate the code of the open community.

New comment by zxcb1 in "Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR"

zxcb1 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:03:03 +0000

Sure, that may work; but what does it mean?

New comment by zxcb1 in "Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR"

zxcb1 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:39:13 +0000

Last time they did this, I was not granted access

New comment by zxcb1 in "Human microbiome myths and misconceptions"

zxcb1 — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 10:24:23 +0000

Analogous to the macro environment of flora and fauna; an ecosystem of microorganisms exhibiting the same evolutionary patterns and dynamics inside of host bodies

New comment by zxcb1 in "ChatGPT Plus"

zxcb1 — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 21:02:39 +0000

We love our free users :)