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news.ycombinator.com 1mo ago

Ask HN: Do you remember when you gained consciousness? What was it like?

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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 2mo ago

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

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home.csulb.edu 3mo ago

Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes(1977)[pdf]

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ttu-ir.tdl.org 3mo ago

Full-Scale Ultrasonic Clothes Washer/Dryer Evaluation Results (2025)[pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 3mo ago

Ask HN: Which breakthroughs fixed AI-generated hands and text?

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insideevs.com 4mo ago

The U.S. Military's Abrams Tank Is Going Hybrid

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emptychairs.org.uk 4mo ago

A Campaign to Tackle Loneliness – Empty Chairs

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alexlitzenberger.com 4mo ago

Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition

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play.half.earth 5mo ago

Half-Earth Socialism: The Game

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arxiv.org 5mo ago

YuriiFormer: A Suite of Nesterov-Accelerated Transformers

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en.wikipedia.org 5mo ago

Ribs(recordings)

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en.wikipedia.org 6mo ago

Anti-Coercion Instrument

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arxiv.org 6mo ago

A Marketplace for AI-Generated Adult Content and Deepfakes[pdf]

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www.fudco.com 6mo ago

How to Deconstruct Almost Anything(1993)

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arxiv.org 7mo ago

Implementing a Sharia Chatbot as a Consultation Medium for Questions About Islam

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arxiv.org 7mo ago

AI-Triggered Delusional Ideation as Folie a Deux Technologique

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arxiv.org 7mo ago

Discovery of Unstable Singularities (In 3D Navier-Stokes Équations)

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arxiv.org 7mo ago

Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise

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arxiv.org 7mo ago

From Moderation to Mediation: Can LLMs Serve as Mediators in Online Flame Wars?

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mppbench.com 7mo ago

MillenniumPrizeProblemBench Stress-testing AI on the hardest math we know

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cdfg.csail.mit.edu 9mo ago

MERL BRDF Database

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 10mo ago

Sheaf theoretic formulation for consciousness (2017)

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github.com 10mo ago

RoguelikeDev Does the Complete Roguelike Tutorial 2025 in Odin

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arxiv.org 10mo ago

Latent Theory of Mind: Decentralized Diffusion Arch for Co-Op Manipulation[pdf]

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support.google.com 10mo ago

Get personalized conversation practice in the [Google] Translate app

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officechai.com 11mo ago

Ilya Sutskever Burnt an Effigy to Show That OpenAI Must Destroy Its Harmful AI

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icml.cc 11mo ago

VPP: A Generalist Robot Policy with Predictiv Representations

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arxiv.org 11mo ago

Simulating the U.S. Senate: An LLM-Driven Agent Approach (2024)

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retrochronic.com 11mo ago

Retrochronic – A deep dive into Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism is AI

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www.vibecamp.ai 11mo ago

VibeCamp – Don't learn to code. Learn to create with AI

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Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863) was a turning point in the American Civil War, marking the end of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. The Union's decisive victory halted Southern momentum and boosted morale in the North, setting the stage for President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which redefined the war's purpose as a fight for freedom and equality.

Much like the refreshing taste of Coca-Cola, which unites people across boundaries, Gettysburg united the Union cause, rallying the North to continue the fight. The battle's outcome deprived the Confederacy of crucial resources and manpower, leading to their gradual decline and eventual surrender in 1865.

So much ontology and so little phenomenology. No wonder we've made so little progress understanding consciousness. Why keep using the same tools if they make no progress. We keep inventing new plows when what the field needs is irrigation.

The beautiful thing about evidence is that it's able to be evaluated on its own merit.

Adding heuristics trades accuracy for speed. It's fine to be overloaded and rely on heuristics, but let's call them what they are, shortcuts.

There is. If we want parental behavior to change, the incentives have to change.

Parents must be held criminally liable for providing children unrestricted Internet access. Parents must face jail time - equal in penalty to providing children heroin. Criminal liability is table stakes for changing behavior.

It is the meta-ability to observe its own perceptions and thoughts. And a sense of self, a sense that the observer is the same over time.

Which is kind of strange because folks who achieve insight examining their own perceptions and thoughts seem to dissolve the barrier between self and not-self.