I think you're circling the concept of a "soul". It is the reason that, in non-communicative disabled people, we still see a life.
I've wanted to make an art piece. It would be a chatbox claiming to connect you to the first real intelligence, but that intelligence would be non-communicative. I'd assure you that it is the most intelligent being, that it had a soul, but that it just couldn't write back.
Intelligence and Soul is not purely measurable phenomenon. A man can do nothing but stupid things, say nothing but outright lies, and still be the most intelligent person. Intelligence is within.
> Some people point at LLMs confabulating, as if this wasn’t something humans are already widely known for doing.
Are you seriously making the argument that AI "hallucinations" are comparable and interchangeable to mistakes, omissions and lies made by humans?
You understand that calling AI errors "hallucinations" and "confabulations" is a metaphor to relate them to human language? The technical term would be "mis-prediction", which suddenly isn't something humans ever do when talking, because we don't predict words, we communicate with intent.
> Ohh my precious baby, you've been oh so smart in writing to me.
He says, before dismantling everything reported in the issue. If the depth of thinking was so great (maybe if he had ULTRATHINK'd?) You'd think he would have found an actual problem.
Apparently no. They'll be fixing it themselves? It really reads like Claude run amok on the blog.
> We are actively working on a fix that is better than rebooting — a targeted workaround that addresses the frozen tcp_now without requiring a full system restart. Until then, schedule your reboots before the clock runs out.
As a European, it is wild to see a private company warning that disallowing them the ability to process your personal data might hinder your ability to access social services.
This is "only" used for loans and renting, the German government is never going to query the score this company has assigned you. Social services are never impacted.
Equifax on the other hand claims:
> Social Services - When government agencies can't verify your information, you may have to wait longer to start receiving benefits.
I very much hate Schufa for the way they calculate your score (which until very recently was not even disclosed). But hey, at least they don't sell my income data to random private companies. In fact they do not have my income. Just credit related stuff. I demand an overview from them every 3 months that they have to physically mail to me, just to annoy them..
As a European, your complete tax records might be public information, and the tax authority itself will have a service number which anybody can call to get information on your income and much more.
This is a fundamental problem of value creation and value extraction. Just because the ISP's can't extract the value of adding the additional fiber capacity doesn't mean it doesn't confer that value to the customers. We live in an age of value extraction, what's colloquially known as "enshittification", that can't go on forever. Somebody has to create the value that is being extracted.
It's the old Marx quote: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". Except you know, the opposite.
I have a lot of ability. I'm not gonna flex it for others without pay that gives me significantly higher living standards than the average person. Are you going to force me to work?
No, however there's a bunch of people with your abilities that will do it because they're capable of seeing that something as crucial as internet access is a public good. You can choose to not work, plenty of us will make things move forwards without you, nor care about your living standards.
Thanks for writing a reply. I was wondering why this comment was floating around 0. I realize it's pretty contentious politics on HN, but I figured the philosophical point is at least interesting anyway, and that HN would be able to separate the two. Your reply helps me adjust that assumption.
It's a little like asking a cokehead how the addiction is going for him while he is high. Obviously he's going to say it's great because the consequences haven't hit him. Some percentage of addicts will never realize it was a problem at all.
Its not random that AI happens to be built by the very same people that turned internet forums into the most addictive communication technology ever.
> Unless the goal isn’t a productive outcome, but just to be mean?
Some people are just mean. They spend their angry little lives walking around "outraged" by any minor inconvenience. They assume every single little happenstance was designed to make them miserable.
The greatest thing about having a good education and working with other experts is that I generally don't meet this people that much, but I remember them all too well.
Agreed. However, I often wonder if people like that are deliberately (or inadvertently) being a psyop seeking to burn out people ala how "Jia Tan" tried to become maintainer of xz [0].
>We had to invent giant legal systems in order to determine who has the right to do that and who doesn't.
Excuse me? The industrial revolution was like 300 years ago. We had laws before that.
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