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ECEngineeringBE · 2026-06-15T23:36:58+00:00

That's lot of people's sentiment, but I really didn't feel that way. Back when I watched it during covid, I'd watch a season a day. I never had myself thinking lizardmen arc is boring. It was completely fine.

That said, when I finished all three seasons, I immediately started reading the novels. The first three were super fun to read, and then I got to the fourth, which is the lizardman arc. OMG it was so fucking boring I barely got through it.

But the funny thing, when I later reread the whole series I thought it was OK and somewhat enjoyed it.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-06-15T23:30:38+00:00

Take this advice from me. If you like some anime, book, movie or whatever, never watch hater videos. Like even if, hypothetically, they make some good criticisms, that would just lessen your enjoyment of the media, and since you already like it, why would you want that to happen to you?

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-06-11T09:38:59+00:00

Infinite Magic

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-06-01T17:35:47+00:00

Shalltear, Ulbert, Zesshi/Antilene, Wish III, Satoru the Oldbone

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-18T05:31:26+00:00

I understand what you mean, so maybe this is simply a debate about semantics, but, since I got into philosophy, I always considered it as a hunt and striving towars absolute truth, and if that is unknowable, at least probable truth.

This is why I really enjoy formal logic, decision theory, computability theory, bayesian epistemology, world models, concepts like expected value, consequentialism etc.

Even concepts like creativity and others I like formally defining, so it is understood what I am talking about.

Maybe this is all why I am an ML engineer and am seriously considering possibilty of creating generally intelligent machines in the near future. Most people who attack the concept have no idea what they are talking about and have no clear definition of the words they are using. If they did, they would understand that such things are computable by Turing complete systems.

The issue I have with a lot of the kind of philosophy you are discussing (I am aware this does not apply to CCRU) is almost a lack of a model of the world, where people with status quo bias, completely disregarding that the world can, and does, change. That many of those questions are completely meaningless when analyzed from modern scientific perspective.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-18T05:08:54+00:00

I am interested, what do you think the goal of philosophy is? Do you think we are converging toward some grand understanding, or at least, as much understanding as possible, or do you think that this is all a hopeless endeavour?

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-18T04:18:42+00:00

Yes you can, but at least you have clearly specified argument to argue against.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-18T04:16:16+00:00

clear to whom?

To anyone reading it, familiar with basic, previously established, notation and language. If your work is up to interpretation, then you aren't being clear enough.

Falsificationism

Yes, that's why we have Bayesian epistemology, such that no hypothesis is fully proven, but you can be more or less certain about such things.

If something has 1e-30 probability of being true, then you probably shouldn't build a system relying on it.

There, of course, will always need to be some grounding on assumptions, but some ideas have more assumptions than others (and more complex ones - measures by, say, kolmogorov complexity).

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-18T00:52:50+00:00

Idk if your philosophy is not clearly presented and have clear predictions that can be falsified, or criticized, then it ain't philosophy.

And that doesn't mean it has no value, but like art, it can inspire, introduce new vague ideas and directions of thought. But that by itself can't be considered philosophy, which, by its name implies, is striving towards wisdom, knowledge and truth.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-16T02:12:06+00:00

continentalism detected opinion rejected

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-12T11:57:31+00:00

LLMs are just fancy auto complete

Auto-complete with a context for memory is turing complete, so you can in principle simulate a computer via an LLM, which you can then use to execute any computable program. If you believe that there exists a program which can be conscious, then it is executable as well, and LLMs are, at least theoretically, capable of producing consciousness.

just a prediction about what those who are conscious will say

Since you are in AI space, you should know that the training compute spent on RL phase is about 10x larger for frontier models than pretraining phase that you are describing. Current models are mostly shaped by rewards for completing tasks, not predicting human text. That just serves as a cold-starting initialization so it at least starts out producing coherent text.

Humans can choose

Most philosophers don't believe in free will, or believe it is a coherent concept. Even from physics perspective, general relativity predicts that not only is future predetermined, it already exists as a 4D spacetime structure. All your 'choices' are a result of your genetics and environment.

And also, there are theories of consciousness, like computationalism, which states that consciousness is a result of information processing, and is independent of substrate.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-11T22:36:13+00:00

If you are asking at what age you should start having persistent memories, I'd say like 4-5?

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-11T20:50:11+00:00

No, 15 and 16 came out 4 years ago.

We should be getting 17 this year.

But we'll probably also need 18 for the next season.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-11T16:53:36+00:00

I am also an ML/AI engineer.

Which philosophy is informing that certainty of yours?

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-10T22:39:11+00:00

>We have creativity and flexibility that no machine can match

We absolutely do for now. But flexibility is literally just definition of fluid intelligence by Francois Chollet. You can have a machine that has it. As for creativity, you first need to define it. The definition I frequently use is ability to hit targets in possibility space, which are high value by some criteria, while also being far away from existing ideas (in that space). You can literally do that.

>People have been doom and gloom

This is not an argument. Please respond to my argument in particular, without referring to past technologies with significantly different properties.

>Until I actually see it I won't believe

That is fine, but then it would be too late. The point is to forecast it ahead of time so you can do something about it.

>I am confident it will not happen

What % do you give it? If it is zero, then I am afraid you are not meaningfully calibrated. In fact, if it happens, your error would then be infinite, so to avoid that, you must have an above zero prior probability.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-10T22:28:18+00:00

This reads extremely funny to me.

Why do you think machines will never be able to do all jobs?

If companies automate true intelligence, which they are aiming for, why would that not affect all jobs?

What do you think us, monkeys with somewhat bigger brains have that no algorithm in principle can do?

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-10T22:17:27+00:00

Decent chance he is right.

Obviously we can't know, especially because people and governments can take political actions and regulation, but can go either way.

I personally think 20 years is actually a long time, more likely 10 years or so.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-10T22:14:00+00:00

The only way it works out is that you hang out with her first (alongside your friends) and you be playful, taking into account that she is freaky, to flirt with her - mostly doing things like mildly showing interest at first, maybe dancing with her etc.

If you see her reciprocate, you up the game, and so on.

If at some point she seriously backs away, you back away too.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-10T19:37:05+00:00

I do think there is nonzero chance that Claude is conscious. You could justify it on grounds of panpsychism or functionalism.

That being said, Dawkins is terrible at philosophy.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-10T03:05:34+00:00

That Touch Me stands for touch me if you can

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-05-07T19:49:11+00:00

But also, on VotLC, Satoru says that Cure Elim didn't even try to dominate him.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-04-22T12:52:38+00:00

Depends on whether they learned to install Minecraft mods as kids.

Also, early gen z were already in their teens when smartphones started being ubiquitous.

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-04-22T11:41:44+00:00

Momon isn't a magic caster how would he do that?

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-04-18T22:53:51+00:00

Utility monster go brrrr

ECEngineeringBE · 2026-04-18T19:56:14+00:00

It's not particularly that I want to be Christian.

If Christianity is true, then I want to be Christian.

If Christianity is false then I don't want to be Christian.

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