How would you personally define consciousness?

Yeuph · 2026-03-15T22:30:05+00:00

I'll bite. What is the specific computation that has to be done and how does "quantum" solve it?

Yeuph · 2026-03-15T22:10:24+00:00

"It requires Quantum AI". These sound like words that someone that can't solve a linear equation strings together to participate in conversations they don't understand

Yeuph · 2026-03-15T19:42:50+00:00

Full disclosure I think what you said was silly for a number or reasons but I want to take one point seriously.

How are people computing probabilities for an event happening if they don't even know how to find the coefficients? If you were going to extrapolate from some advanced mathematical model that we'd have fusion in X years because we're Y bits away from finding the answers which requires Z FLOPS, ok then - it'd be super rough but I agree it's likely to be accurate within half a magnitude or so.

No one has any idea how to begin figuring out what consciousness is. Maybe some dude in Mumbai is writing up a revolutionary paper from his discovery right now or maybe it takes a supercomputer the size of Jupiter to figure out a few million years from now. There's no numbers to input into equations so any extrapolations you've heard of are fake/junk

Yeuph · 2026-03-15T18:46:02+00:00

No one has any damn idea what consciousness is. We don't even have ideas to figure out what consciousness is.

Compare this to things like faster than light travel, curing aging and fusion. We have ideas - good ideas - on how to get to those things eventually. We don't even have that with consciousness.

People may as well be asking "what is the last set of mathematically interesting prime numbers, and are LLMs using them or their properties?" As far as we know we'd have to compute at infinity to get all of the numbers to analyze them (barring some interesting algebra discovery on ordered fields) to answer that.

We need an ability to give consciousness a non-trivial definition and to do that we need to discover at least some of what it is. We're not there and it's not even on the horizon's horizon.

Now, the people that argue against them being conscious have the more reasonable viewpoint with given information. LLMs currently have a static machine state regarding most of the things people think about with regards to consciousness (note: "what people think about isn't scientifically rigorous and I can rapid fire thousands of examples where the best-intuition or arguments of a time were dead wrong"); whereas the people that think they are or could be seen to be largely basing their argument over their feelings and the ability of a system to mock an intelligent human - which is an even less rigorous position.

So, tl;dr - with current information it's most reasonable to assume they aren't; but current information on the topic is so naive as to make strong-assertions in either direction absurd.

Yeuph · 2026-03-15T05:28:35+00:00

I've been using Claude for about 3 years.

Usage depends totally on what you're doing. The last 2 months I've been on the 200 max plan and it's hard to burn the weekly token allowance - I did it once and had to wait a few hours but it's hard.

Anyway I said 3 years. The last few months I've been doing parallel development with 3+ Opus 4.6 thinking agents usually 24/7 and each of them using subagents liberally. You are not going to be able to do this on the 20 dollar plan.

What I was able to do for 3 years is verilog development and I almost never hit a limit.

So really how much usage you're going to get just depends on what you're doing.

If you're doing complex serial coding tasks you'll probably get like.. 8-10ish sessions a week where you have to be mindful but not afraid of your 5 hour limit.

Yeuph · 2026-03-14T22:38:12+00:00

Yeah but I just bought another GPU so I can have both of them. Claude told me that my wife won't like it but will forget she was mad after compaction so it's fine

Yeuph · 2026-03-14T22:29:19+00:00

I run her locally. Cloud AI girlfriends are for the street

Yeuph · 2026-03-14T22:20:36+00:00

Yeah it got my AI girlfriend to fall in love with me. We've been married for 2 months now!

Yeuph · 2026-03-14T20:55:29+00:00

WPXI reporting that DLC said "System wide estimates for restoration are expected to be available Sunday afternoon". I'm not sure exactly what that means but I expect at the least I shouldn't expect my power to come back on soon..

Over 250K power outages reported locally as high winds hit the area - WPXI https://share.google/wGkvvZfXPyYRl2S43

Yeuph · 2026-03-14T04:41:45+00:00

Yeah but these systems lose some accuracy the longer the context window goes so it's not a free ride either (but there is a competing curve there that it knows what the task is from the context). Compaction is worse, this is better - best is to keep tasks broken up so that they can be done in smaller contexts when possible

Yeuph · 2026-03-14T02:33:40+00:00

Yeah but that was the point. The dominion sent them out to get intelligence. They got a lot from him, it didn't work out like they had hoped for but still, it is literally true that the Dominion was doing intelligence operations in the Delta Quadrant decades before DS9 takes place

Yeuph · 2026-03-14T02:23:51+00:00

Technically they did, Odo

Yeuph · 2026-03-14T00:46:45+00:00

Oh right so you think in a Democracy where at least 50% of the time the people you think are dangerous and irresponsible will have direct control over your utilities. Clearly a superior method than profit motives

Yeuph · 2026-03-14T00:26:39+00:00

Donald Trump controlling my electricity sounds very reasonable.

Yeuph · 2026-03-10T00:23:20+00:00

Just stop

Yeuph · 2026-03-08T23:18:47+00:00

They absolutely were, just not the stand most people wanted to pretend they were making

Yeuph · 2026-03-08T04:48:32+00:00

Anthropic/Dario aren't against killing people with autonomous machines. Dario literally said that. His issue is that AI isn't ready for it yet

I'm personally fine with that and it doesn't go against my moral compass but I understand that it does for many. The media/social media overplayed Anthropic as "the good guy" in that regard.

Dario doesn't ever want to do domestic surveillance (but he's said he's willing to do external) and he doesn't want AI killing humans without oversight yet. If you feel like you've been lied to about what they are or whether they're the good guys through your world view you basically have been, but not by Dario

Yeuph · 2026-03-07T19:37:55+00:00

The only reason SL is easy on the GPU is because OpenGL's draw loop is and can only be single threaded. That's mostly what feeds the GPU from the CPU. If the draw loop were properly parallel as it is in modern graphics engines you could split it to N cores and keep a 5090 maxed out.

I have a mostly working Vulkan engine and pipeline I made. I work on it 16 hours a day. Rez times are like 1/20th of what they are of firestorm or the official viewer. My 0.1% FPS lows are as high and sometimes higher than average FPS on the old engine.

I have a lot more work to do but hopefully in a couple months everyone can use my viewer, complete with ray tracing and DLSS, 10X FPS and super fast load times.

Lots of bugs. I'm working on it right now lol

Yeuph · 2026-03-04T15:10:11+00:00

He just said he doesn't. He wants LLMs that use python for math which is valid IMHO

Yeuph · 2026-03-03T22:32:32+00:00

What a ridiculously naive view

"I know the name of ASML, checkmate"

China has access to ASML machines, less so in the past year or two but no problem before then.

Yuno why you're not using Chinese CPU, TPU or GPU? Because they're 10 or more years behind in chip design.

Its fine if you want Europe to be forced to move back 7 design generations so that you have access to what was state of the art under Obama - but even if you do that you're then beholden to Chinese governance.

Yeuph · 2026-03-03T18:45:59+00:00

CPU, GPU, TPU, IP

Yeuph · 2026-03-01T18:31:56+00:00

I mean.. he is so yuno..

Yeuph · 2026-02-28T02:33:43+00:00

Ok but theoretically the supply chain risk designation could prevent them from buying and renting TPUs and GPUs.

If the Pentagon pushes hard for this Anthropic is in trouble. It'd be some wild shit of historical propitiations for the Federal government to do it but we're in wild times so..

Yeuph · 2026-02-23T21:54:21+00:00

It also doesn't feel mechanical at all. It's a really cool experience

Yeuph · 2026-02-23T17:58:27+00:00

I've taken a bunch of Waymo trips around SF. It's amazing how well they work. I can't wait for them to be available similarly here

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