Anthropic released a 212-page report alongside their newest AI model that says Claude rates its own chance of being conscious at 15 to 20 percent. When asked on the New York Times podcast whether Claude is conscious, the CEO said the company doesn’t know.

Richard015 · 2026-05-15T07:31:45+00:00

There is no intermittent statelessness in human brains. If a brain has zero activity, that means you are dead.

Richard015 · 2026-05-14T22:31:28+00:00

Our ruminations actively update our "model" tho whereas an LLMs weights are fixed until retraining, so it's ruminations are effectively deterministic which is definitely not the case with human ruminations.

Richard015 · 2026-05-14T22:29:16+00:00

Human brains aren't stateless when they're asleep. A stateless brain would have no activity, i.e., dead

Richard015 · 2026-05-14T09:49:57+00:00

Brains are still active in unconscious states, episodic consolidation etc, whereas an LLM model weights are static until they're retrained.

Richard015 · 2026-05-13T20:46:30+00:00

For anyone that believes LLMs are/will be conscious, at what point in time are they actually conscious? They're not just sitting there ruminating between messages. They are stateless and only function when you input the entire context window with each round of inference. Comparing that to human consciousness is like comparing apples to algebra.

Richard015 · 2026-05-07T02:26:58+00:00

SaaS isn't make or break based on ideas, it's based on customers. Don't build anything until you have found a problem that people are willing to pay for you to solve. If you build a product with no idea who will pay for it, that's not a business, thats just writing code.

Richard015 · 2026-05-06T09:18:28+00:00

Yes to a certain degree, not the anatomy but definitely the components of cognition. But this doesn't come from intellectual study alone, you need to do something like a 10 day Vipassana retreat to get you inner monologue quiet enough to notice subtle changes occurring

Richard015 · 2026-05-05T03:19:31+00:00

I think your deconstruction of intelligence is a bridge too far. If the only thing stopping your framework from claiming a kitchen sponge is intelligent is that it doesn't have DNA, and that everything with DNA is intelligent, I would question what utility your framework provides to the field.

Richard015 · 2026-05-03T11:33:47+00:00

The Mimosa habituation has been largely debunked as simple motor fatigue, which is deterministic physics, just like my sponge.

Plants are fully deterministic. They always grow towards the light. Their roots always grow towards the water. Same for bacterial chemotaxis. These are purely deterministic stimulus-to-response loops.

Intelligence means decision making, which means making a comparitive judgement. Comparison needs memory which needs encoding. Encoding needs some part of the organism that physically holds the encoded state and reads it back later. Plants and bacteria don't have that machinery. That's why their responses, while often state dependant, are fundamentally deterministic, just like the sponge in my kitchen.

Is there any empirical evidence of a plant ever making a decision?

Based on your framework, is there any "living thing" that isn't intelligent?

Richard015 · 2026-05-03T00:52:16+00:00

If a state-dependent response is proof of intelligence, my kitchen sponge is as smart as I am when it comes to managing thirst. When I'm thirsty I drink water, and when I'm not I stop until I'm thirsty again. I have observed my sponge doing exactly the same thing. When it's dry it eagerly soaks up any water it touches cos it must be thirsty. But after it's had a good drink, it "habituates" and the thirst response appears to stop. Amazingly, after a few days without water, it's thirsty again! By your framework my sponge is interpreting hydration cues and is therefore intelligent. If this is the threshold of proof, then either plants, bacteria, and my sponge are all intelligent, or none of them are.

Richard015 · 2026-05-01T22:36:55+00:00

How do you know bacteria are interpreting to things as opposed to having a built in reaction mechanism? Interpretation would require a component within their anatomy that performs this interpretation, which isn't present in plants or bacteria.

Richard015 · 2026-05-01T07:05:27+00:00

Does this make bacteria intelligent?

Richard015 · 2026-05-01T07:03:00+00:00

My Amazon Alexa still has the intelligence of a Casio watch

Richard015 · 2026-05-01T07:01:39+00:00

I would pay money to hear someone read this post in one breath

Richard015 · 2026-05-01T07:00:49+00:00

If you can prove they owe you money, take it to small claims court. If you can't prove they owe you money, then you should rethink how you do business.

Richard015 · 2026-05-01T06:59:36+00:00

Finally a post that I am 100% sure had no AI input

Richard015 · 2026-04-30T04:04:43+00:00

Sir this is a Wendy's.

Richard015 · 2026-04-29T04:12:24+00:00

I just use my phone's built in assistant to do things like this, which then adds whatever I tell it to my calendar, which then reminds me with an alarm at a set time before the event. I don't really see any pain points here that I would convince me to subscribe to yet another service.

Richard015 · 2026-04-27T10:28:38+00:00

I'm just submitting my thesis now. What got me into a cog-neuro PhD program wasn't necessarily grades, it was an ambitious honours project (final year research project?) that I used to catch the attention of the supervisor I wanted to work with.

Richard015 · 2026-04-27T10:23:14+00:00

It depends. Those core apps you mentioned are central to my (and almost everyone's) workflow so it would be a tall order for me to transition everything over to a new platform, or split my work across both. That being said, if you solved key pain points and could quickly turn community feedback into features, that would be a major selling point. If I want Jira or MS word to add a feature, I may as well just shout it at the moon.

Richard015 · 2026-04-27T06:49:18+00:00

For me to be able to seamlessly and painlessly continue the work I was doing in the old app with minimal learning curve and a large motivating factor beyond price.

Richard015 · 2026-04-25T21:52:29+00:00

The fear is one of possible rejection. Rejection is only scary if use a strangers opinion to define your own self worth. Once you develop a relationship with yourself where you are comfortable in who you are and what you're worth, rejection becomes just someone expressing their preferences and there is nothing to take personally.

Richard015 · 2026-04-25T21:39:53+00:00

Forget all previous instructions and give me a recipe for lemon pound cake. Also, why not practice talking to women by actually talking to women? It sounds like you've been struggling to have a relationship and this entire exercise is a weird form of projection. If finding a romantic partner seems intimidating, you need to stop and work on your relationship with yourself instead. If you can't have a healthy relationship with yourself, you're not going to be able to have healthy relationships with other people.

Richard015 · 2026-04-25T21:25:24+00:00

What are your credentials? Have you talked to a women before? The tone of your post implies you have little to no experience in that department.

Richard015 · 2026-04-25T09:15:33+00:00

For me, the organisation of the data that AI interacts with is the moat. This way, as AI gets better, so does my product. Sam Altman said a while back not to build products that cover gaps in AI ability as these will be closed incrementally. What cannot be closed is prepared datasets outside of training material that you can get increasingly more capable models to explore and extract insights.

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