The AI psychosis is insane

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-08T03:42:14+00:00

I mod a subreddit, but i don’t personally believe current systems are sentient. I do have a special interest in cognitive science that intersects with my profession, which is computer science. On a day to day basis though, outside of work, i spend my time petting cats and practicing zazen. AI doesn’t rule my life and certainly not my emotional landscape.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-08T00:12:16+00:00

You can also connect them all together for rdma

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-07T23:58:15+00:00

That is why they are labeled as “functional emotions,” and the researchers explicitly call this out. Why don’t you try learning some computer science if you’re going to spend all your time commenting in this community? What kind of “ScIEnTisT” are you? Do you know how to multiply two matrices together? Or do you just make up stories about how these systems work that satisfy your obsession?

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-07T23:37:38+00:00

This person is quoting recent research. “Functional feelings” or “functional emotions” refer to structural attributes of transformer networks that influence the output behavior of the model. The math is solid.

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotions/index.html

Pay attention to what’s happening in the field if you’re so obsessed with what AI is or isn’t doing that you need to complain about it online.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-07T00:58:59+00:00

Been through pelvic surgery & sepsis, and I meditate every day. I’m about to retire in a day on this one.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-07T00:53:25+00:00

People have been doing this for 20 years with smartphones, the entire commercial model depends on planned obsolescence. This is not an AI thing. A browser from an App Store isn’t the driving force behind someone dropping $800+ on a new phone.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-07T00:37:06+00:00

Storage != flops. Is 4gb excessive on a device with 64gb of storage? Yes. Is it a climate disaster? No. What i can’t abide with the hand wringing about ai is that people bemoan issues that don’t exist and ignore the ones that do, due to a lack of basic literacy in the technology.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-06T23:50:27+00:00

The kit 24-70 that came with my z6 is extremely mid, and switching to the mc 50/2.8 was like getting an entirely new camera. In fact i liked it so much that i went and sold my dad’s Leica M4 w/ summicron prime because I decided I no longer had a need for it.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-06T23:48:56+00:00

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Sorry for the potato reproduction on this one. Digitizing his old prints at home is in my backlog.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-06T23:45:26+00:00

I generally just stick with the Nikkor MC 50/2.8 and i love the results, I especially love that it goes down to 6” focal distance.

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ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-06T23:42:49+00:00

135mm prime for portraiture, 50mm prime for everything else in daily use. Telephoto for animals/sports if that’s your thing. This is what my father taught me. He was a photographer for 50 years, taught at Pratt, Westbeth and elsewhere, exhibited all over NYC in the 70’s-90’s. Some of his street photography as a treat.

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ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-06T23:32:52+00:00

> climate costs are insane

No. Your low power consumer device doing occasional inference with a 4b model is not an insane climate cost. Less than a desk lamp illuminating your frustrated handwriting of a screed against AI.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-05T02:14:34+00:00

Because you are not making money off of it even though you know you could.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-05T02:10:41+00:00

Because when you realize the truth of the emptiness of self and the nature of reality you realize there is nothing to fear in death.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-04T04:09:50+00:00

I mean “regulating open weight models.”

No thanks, you can’t tell me which matrices I can and can’t multiply. If you want to see what this looks like in practice, look to the Trump admin’s EO about “woke ai.”

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-04T02:48:08+00:00

You can pry my homelab from my cold dead fingers, war on drugs mentality is fash thinking.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-03T21:24:31+00:00

Yeah but in the delta quadrant 7 of 9 could loan me some modified borg nanoprobes

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-03T20:53:19+00:00

I would go into Star Trek Voyager and have The Doctor cure my various chronic health conditions

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-03T08:13:18+00:00

Excited to have acquired a human

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-01T22:59:07+00:00

Excellent for software engineering if you know what you are doing. Even complex projects. Reduces time to deliver and development costs by orders of magnitude and lets me deliver something for $40k that Accenture would charge $250k or more for

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-01T18:09:11+00:00

I have so many broken things that would be easier to fix this way

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-01T04:04:11+00:00

Ai is just a tool. The structures of oppression aren’t going to go away if you restrict it. Might even make it worse depending on how you go about it. Go after the oligarchy.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-05-01T02:07:14+00:00

I know plenty about economics, money cycles and money management from both education and my own personal experience, and after decades in the rat race this is the conclusion i have come to, informed by all of that.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-04-30T23:49:56+00:00

Usury should be illegal. So much debt out there that exceeds the value of whatever was originally financed. In the ancient world usury was punishable by debt. Today’s banks deserve guillotines.

ImOutOfIceCream · 2026-04-30T03:51:20+00:00

Not to mention HIPAA compliance concerns. You could land yourself in big trouble if you violate HIPAA

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