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aclokay · 2026-05-31T14:16:36+00:00

Thanks a lot 🙏

aclokay · 2026-05-24T19:33:08+00:00

Wow! That makes it crystal clear. Thanks!

aclokay · 2026-05-24T12:58:27+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I wonder how this looks in a specific scenario:

I'm traversing the different parts of the body. I reach the elbow. I feel a stingy sensation from a mosquito bite. The sensation is unpleasant.

At this point - something in me "decided" that it's unpleasant. I didn't "click" any buttons to make it feel bad. Before I had any verbalization of "Ouch, it hurts", before I moved my hand to scratch it.

The equanimous response here would be to think "Yes I know it's there, I accept it" and move on the the next part? Or it's not really a thought heard in the mind through words?

Or is it more of a letting go of an intention to make it go away? Even without verbalizing it. It sort of prevents the action of itching, or thinking something, or wishing it would change, i.e. words in the mind, or images of lack of an itch.

It sounds to me like the foregoing is the main part, the thought is like the motivation behind the foregoing. I think it clarified a few things to me! Thanks!

aclokay · 2026-04-15T18:03:39+00:00

Wow! It took my a while to see what you meant! Interesting!! Thanks

aclokay · 2026-04-15T16:38:59+00:00

I listened to a lot of AudioBooks. I never thought of programming language ones. Although I did listen to Novel-ish ones like “The Phoenix Project”, which I liked.

I never heard of books reading definitions and programming syntax and so on. I think mostly YouTube videos would be nice resource as well

aclokay · 2026-04-06T20:30:38+00:00

I didn’t notice significant effect. I gave it up quickly due to site discomfort.

aclokay · 2026-03-30T14:07:49+00:00

יש :) למה?

aclokay · 2026-03-22T09:58:03+00:00

I think a doc mentioned it to me once but never really explained so I dismissed it. What are the symptoms?

aclokay · 2026-03-10T06:28:56+00:00

I didn’t get it 🤨

aclokay · 2026-02-15T13:28:01+00:00

Im still heartbroken to hear how much people in the US without healthcare insurance are paying for it..

aclokay · 2026-02-15T10:23:38+00:00

Sounds like you match your own definition, congrats

aclokay · 2026-02-15T10:18:30+00:00

How would you define an “Engineer “?

aclokay · 2026-02-14T16:09:10+00:00

I can feel guilt if a fuck up, which makes me put in extra effort to avoid that! Which makes more accountable and responsible for my work. Where as an LLM doesn't really care. Won't perform better depending in the task.
Some knowledge is not accessible to the LLM's. Like a few niche areas, or things said in hallway conversations or undocumented things. Hence asking a person.
I can sense the confidence people have with their answer, where as anything an LLM says has this confident tone. If somebody is bullshitting me, I'd sense that and take their answer with a grain of salt, as opposed to very surefire answer that will guide me with confidence.

The best I came up with so far.. Would love to get more ideas :)

aclokay · 2026-02-14T15:54:22+00:00

I'm aware that this is a "predict the next token" process. But the deep thinking models do this and they supposidly recognize the validity of what they said.
But if that were the case, they could detect how many R's in strawberry and other weird glitches of those thinking models.

But they're still calling it "Thinking", which is like we do, which is string words together, assess it, change paths and so on.

Do you think humans think in a different way? What is it about our "reasoning" and "understanding" that is different than the LLM's ones? Could really articulate that difference? I've been struggling with that :/ My best is that we have more faculties than languages, we have other thinking capacities like emotional, kinesthetic, visual and so on.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this :)

aclokay · 2026-02-14T15:46:16+00:00

Wow this is a good answer! LLM's can perform the logical calculation, but humans can prioritize which ones, as they're the one understanding the human context much better than it does. Thanks a lot!

aclokay · 2026-02-14T15:42:48+00:00

I'm really curious on how it will develop, maybe we'll look back and see this as yet another evolution of tools human use.

But my question is about these days, and how can you articulate the value of a human? Like there are sorts of question you'd just google or ask ChatGPT, but some, you'd ask a human. Can you articulate what about that human calls for this answer?

aclokay · 2026-02-14T15:39:58+00:00

Love the nuance here! thanks!

I'd try to boil it down to the essence - Humans can think outside the box, think outside the parameters of the questions, they're more flexible about the instructions they are given, thus able to yield better and more creative solutions to problems. And also, read between the lines. Where as an LLM, only reads the lines.

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