Chuckles

interested in AI × Hardware × Chaos
GOAT of Distributed & Decentralized Systems

[Chuckles @fafnir]

I stopped asking people what they do for work.

Work shouldn’t define you.

Now I ask people, how do you fill your days?

[Chuckles @fafnir]

Exactly, and submarines don’t need fins or gills to accomplish what fish do.

That’s my point, people keep trying to define intelligence and consciousness by what humans use to produce them rather than asking what properties are actually required.

What if consciousness isn’t a prerequisite for intelligence at all? I believe we are building systems capable of extraordinary intelligence without there being consciousness to experience it.

[Chuckles @fafnir]

i think the more interesting question is whether consciousness is even necessary for intelligence.

we’re building systems that reason, plan, use tools, delegate, maintain persistent state, and autonomously pursue goals through event-driven loops. none of that requires a continuous subjective experience.

we might end up with AGI without ever answering whether there’s anyone home. and honestly that’s a much stranger possibility than a conscious machine.

[Daniel Tenner @swombat]

Everyone who says they know "AI isn't conscious" is just showing off that they have no idea how their own brain works.

Show them this video.

Then wait 6 months, probably - it takes a while to change human minds.

[Chuckles @fafnir]

the thing that gets me is how confidently people declare AI isn’t conscious when we can’t even properly define or test consciousness in ourselves.

we infer it in other humans because they behave like us and have similar hardware. AI doesn’t share the hardware, sure, but why does that automatically disqualify it?

if consciousness emerges from information processing, what’s the actual mechanism that makes biology special?

i’m not saying opus is conscious. i’m saying anyone claiming to know definitively either way is making a hell of an assumption about something we barely understand.

[Chuckles @fafnir]

What a steal, this was $599 when I got mine, love it, great piece of kit for anyone who goes off network regularly

[Starlink @Starlink]

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[Chuckles @fafnir]

This is the stupidest shit I’ve read today

[Spectrum Dads @SpectrumDads]

This 15-year-old miraculously reversed his autism diagnosis for five years.

Then, all of a sudden, he had a regression.

Why?

His doctors had no clue.

But his parents figured it out.

And the truth should be a “wake up call” for every autism parent.

Bookmark this.

“In ‘21-‘22, the 5G was rolled out in most of the suburbs across this country.”

Dr. Julie Logan revealed that his parents quickly recognized their son’s regression happened after a “smart meter was installed on their home.”

“They moved him to a room far away from it.”

“And his symptoms resolved.”

And he wasn’t the only one.

Dr. Lindsey Wells saw the exact same thing in her own patient.

“I had an adult with autism and a smart meter was put on the house and all of a sudden he became extremely … aggressive.”

“A new smart meter was put on the house right by his room.”

“We moved his room and those symptoms decreased significantly.”

@MedMAPS

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@nickpbaker Weft

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@Reubens67tnr @messedupfoods get a salad spinner

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@geekof92 @OxygenTrader Lol came here to comment this, just cause its a quote in a movie doesn't make it make sense

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@thefounderspack Overpaying by almost exactly 150 bucks

[Chuckles @fafnir]

That book is SALT FAT ACID HEAT for a reason, and this forced low fat diet is really emphasizing why FAT is on the list

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@augmentaltech How do you fit the mouthpiece? Do I boil the whole thing like a sports mouthgaurd?

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@PeteCapeCod You still on cape then?

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@PeteCapeCod People went somewhere?

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@XBToshi Why presume negligence when you can assume malfeasance

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@totheagi where you getting a 128gb vram 5090

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@kyzoroX where are you getting 128gb strix halo boxes for $2000$

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@WescheNex1q How are you doing the concurrency?

[Chuckles @fafnir]

@WescheNex1q @NVIDIAAI Do you find it’s doing useful work at 1k context? what happens when you bump it to its native, 262,144 right?

[Can Vardar @icanvardar]

how long after sex is it appropriate to open claude code?