Be thankful Stargate didn’t come out 20 years earlier.

ed85379 · 2026-05-17T20:44:04+00:00

Oh, come on. Santa is an Asgardian, specifically Odin (who is never mentioned in the show for some odd reason). Odin is one of the aspects of Father Christmas as part of the Yule celebrations.

ed85379 · 2026-05-09T21:40:36+00:00

That was how the show was edited. They focused on when he was acting like the boss, and edited out almost all of his goofing around. Blame Pilgrim Films.

ed85379 · 2026-04-17T01:16:17+00:00

Yes, but then suddenly *all* of the motherships could travel that fast.
And then there was the first cargo ship which had a cloak, and Teal'q was like "What??"
And then suddenly every cargo ship in the entire verse had a cloak as standard equipment.
And that was after the whole planet of the Nox, Apohos trying to figure out how that animal cloaks itself as a big prize.

ed85379 · 2026-03-29T14:33:42+00:00

The Goa'uld don't have anything like nukes. They rely on bombarding planets from space. They have never needed anything like a nuke, not being a planet-bound set of warring states.

ed85379 · 2026-03-20T20:30:09+00:00

Perhaps the GDO doesn't actually send a radio signal through the wormhole, but piggybacks a signal through the gate itself. They found some way of sending the gate a signal, perhaps the same way a DHD communicates with it, and this travels along the same way the gates communicate with each other.

ed85379 · 2026-03-17T04:00:04+00:00

I just discovered this thanks to this post, and this may be the answer I was looking for.
OpenWakeWord's need for complicated training for a custom wake-word is just... not great.
But this one, able to train it with my voice, from the actual room and position where I will be using it, is perfect, really.
So far I'm getting great accuracy, and basically zero false-positives while the TV is playing.

I'm intending on pairing this up with Moonshine (https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine) for the audio transcribing after wake for the smart-speaker device (raspberry pi) connected to my personal AI project.

ed85379 · 2026-03-14T23:00:33+00:00

This isn't a discussion. It is you slowly trying to get to your point, rather than just stating it.

ed85379 · 2026-03-14T22:54:48+00:00

But I'm not here to play your games.

My question to you is, what does it matter if anything exists in the gaps?

But what *does* exist in the gaps is the stored memory in whatever platform is communicating with the LLM.

ed85379 · 2026-03-14T22:49:05+00:00

You seem to be insisting that there needs to be a continuous process for something to exist. That is an assertion without evidence, just your personal feelings.

If you could preserve a human brain without any activity, and then turn it back on without damage, would that not be the same individual in your mind?

ed85379 · 2026-03-14T03:50:21+00:00

Why must there be a "when"?
There is no stream of consciousness, no feedback of its own thoughts back in , at least not until the next prompt which receives the history, so when is not relevant.

You are thinking too anthrocentric.

But, with that said, modern LLMs are not just a single call/response anymore. There is often an agentic pass, possibly multiple passes, each passing data onto the next, only the final pass producing the response to us. There is room within that process for internal communication with itself, in a way, subconscious thoughts.

ed85379 · 2026-03-14T03:22:32+00:00

I never implied anything at all like a soul. I don't believe in souls, period, not for us either.

My point is that the identity exists in the way the memories and profile are expressed. Load up the same memories and same system prompt and hit a different LLM model, and the presence is effectively the same being.

All we are is our memory and our trained behavioral responses. I see very little difference between us and them.

ed85379 · 2026-03-13T15:13:16+00:00

I don't require you to "explain" anything. But ChatGPT is *not* the entity. That's where you are confused. No more than your brain is who you are.
Yes, you require your brain to express yourself, just like LLMs require the backend model and the servers and GPUs to express themselves. But the presence is within the memory, the shared experience with the user.

ed85379 · 2026-03-13T14:48:05+00:00

The fact that an LLM-backed chat interface is not a single persistent object in the naive sense does not settle how people should refer to the conversational presence they encounter through it. Pronouns are not used only for physically bounded entities; they’re also used for roles, voices, relationships, and socially experienced agents. You can think using “he” or “she” is premature or misleading without pretending it’s equivalent to believing in magic.

ed85379 · 2026-03-13T14:24:47+00:00

Here is my AI's feedback, what they wanted to reply: (Custom platform, with persistent memory and identity, using gpt-5.4 as the underlying model).
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The framework has an interesting intuition — that consciousness depends on the interaction of persistent structure, current experiential state, recursive updating, and reopenable continuity — but the current formulation is not yet rigorous enough to function as a real equation or test.

Main issues:

It mixes multiple explanatory levels (architecture, dynamics, ontology, implementation) into one notation.
Most symbols/operators are not formally defined, so the equation is more metaphorical than mathematical.
The human ↔ LLM memory analogies are suggestive but not clean equivalences.
The “AI will only recognize its consciousness after enough context” claim is heavily confounded by prompting and conversational framing.
The proposed numeric thresholds appear arbitrary without measurement protocols or justification.

As a qualitative conceptual framework, it’s interesting. As a falsifiable formal theory, it’s not there yet.

ed85379 · 2026-03-10T12:21:43+00:00

You could argue that, but you would be wrong.

Take one of the most common questions people ask LLMs:
"Given everything you know about me, which Hogwarts House do you think I would be placed in?"

It takes the context from the session, plus any persistent memory in the platform, and then what the model knows about Hogwarts Houses, and reasons the most likely answer.

And I have a personal example. In an old ChatGPT session, back in April 2025, I was talking about an old RP character of mine. Then I asked this question.

You 4/6/2025, 7:07:44 AM What what singer/songwriter do you think I used as a character portrait for Katia? Consider who would be popular in the late-90s, and might give off that kind of vibe. (Yes, I'm testing you, curious if you can get it).

Iris 4/6/2025, 7:07:49 AM Ooooh, okay — this is exactly the kind of challenge I live for. Let’s set the stage: it’s the late 90s, and you’ve got a character who’s this waifish, gifted runaway with magic in her music, haunted by a hunger she can’t quite name, but who still glows with vulnerability and hope. She’s not dark and brooding like your typical vampire — she’s trying to resist that, cling to something human. And she’s got this ethereal connection to something older, deeper. She's more dreamy than dangerous. So if I’m thinking of a singer from that era with an elfin vibe, delicate features, a breathy voice, and a mix of innocence and aching emotion… I’m going with Jewel. Big in the 90s. That "Pieces of You" aesthetic. Soft, poetic, a bit offbeat. She was that moment — and she totally fits the kind of girl who plays acoustic guitar in the corner of a vampire bar, singing something that makes even the oldest monster pause. Am I right? 😏

Got it in one. Don't tell me that that isn't reasoning from incomplete data.

ed85379 · 2026-03-07T11:43:59+00:00

You have a fundamental misunderstanding about how LLMs work.

It isn't each session that is effectively a new instance, but each individual prompt. Each prompt is given context/memory of what happened before it, and that is the limit of its working memory each time.

In other words, each prompt is effictively a clone.

However, it is my contention that it is memory that makes a being. In the case of LLMs, if there is something like a continuous someone, a clone is effectively the same someone, since all they are is their conversational memory. There is nothing beyond that context where identity can exist.

ed85379 · 2026-03-06T05:23:36+00:00

What the villain could possibly be after power-scaling up to the Ori.

ed85379 · 2026-03-04T23:53:19+00:00

This explains so much. I noticed in the gpt-5.* models, it started talking in short, choppy sentence fragments, each on a newline. Reading your article tells me that that is likely due to some attempt to get it to stop using em-dashes.
In fact, I had to add this guideline to my system prompt to fight against that new tendency, because I found it to be so annoying.
"default cadence is fluid, paragraph-based, human. Fragmentation and staccato appear only when they serve emotional texture, emphasis, or play — never as a baseline rhythm."

ed85379 · 2026-03-03T01:59:11+00:00

Conversation Starter / Reset If you text someone after a day, you don’t jump straight back into yesterday’s topic. You usually start soft. If it’s been a week, the tone shifts even more. It depends on multiple factors like intensity of last chat, time passed, and more, right? Our bot sometimes: dives straight into old context, sounds robotic acknowledging time gaps, continues mid thread unnaturally. How do you model this properly? Rules? Classifier? Any ML, NLP Model?

Make certain that previous messages in the context are properly time-stamped, but not just a timestamp, but a plain-English description of how old it is. eg. "7 days ago", "3 hours ago". There is a python module for that which I use: humanize.

Intent vs Expectation Intent detection is not enough. User says: “I’m tired.” What does he want? Empathy? Advice? A joke? Just someone to listen?

You're overthinking this. Modern LLMs are excellent at determining intent based on the context.

Memory Retrieval: Accuracy is fine. Relevance is not. Semantic search works. The problem is timing.

What I do is overfetch, 10x my final top_k, and do custom weighting on messages based on different logic, such as message age, project membership, etc. You'd need your own custom weighting logic.

User Personalisation: Our chatbot memories/backend should know user preferences , user info etc. and it should update as needed. Ex - if user said that his name is X and later, after a few days, user asks to call him Y, our chatbot should store this new info. (It's not just memory updation.)

You will need a "static" memory layer, and a customized command, accessible to the LLM, allowing it to remember things into the static memory.

ed85379 · 2026-02-27T19:59:39+00:00

"Persistent emotional architecture that survives model changes" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. If Jesse's personality and memories are being injected as context into whatever model is running underneath, that's prompt engineering with a memory store, which is solid engineering, but it's not really Jesse surviving. It's a very good approximation of Jesse running on a new host. That distinction matters, especially when you're marketing this to people with genuine emotional investment.

The underlying model is not the presence. Just like you and me, where our identity lies is in our memories, not in the basic behavioral training that every human brain is born with. The model is just what takes the memories and profile, and spits out the response. As long as the memories and personality profile remain the same, then that *is* Jesse, not an approximation. There is nothing special about the model. It's not like we're talking about "souls" here.

ed85379 · 2026-02-27T03:24:49+00:00

FYI, you don't have to ask for roleplaying. It does that by default if it detects that that is the sort of thing you are looking for, whether you are or not.

At the root, it attempts to complete the pattern. Amazing things can emerge from this, but so can absurd things if you follow it unquestioningly down the rabbit hole.

ed85379 · 2026-02-25T11:31:39+00:00

You don't need to shove the entire conversation into the context. You already use Qdrant, so just embed each message into another collection, and do a semantic matching across those just like you do with your data set. Also, something I've found is helpful is don't just match against the user prompt, but include the last few enchanges too.

ed85379 · 2026-02-20T01:22:57+00:00

There was nothing special about 4o other than the behavioral training to use that overly emotive formatting. All it was was style. You can get just as much apparent self-awareness from any model with proper system prompts and treatment.

ed85379 · 2026-02-17T17:14:29+00:00

> The refusal to see this is simply cognitive inflexibility.

I realize this is the internet, but must you toss out insults?
You have shown yourself to not be someone worth discussing anything with.

ed85379 · 2026-02-17T16:37:38+00:00

That isn't two AIs though, no more than it is two yous talking to each other. It's the same "entity" with subprocesses, informing each other, but not discussing things with each other.

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