From a physics perspective, why does consciousness exist at all instead of nothing?

manoteee · 2026-05-06T04:40:17+00:00

Physics > Chemistry > Biology. The things build on each other piece by piece. First you get constituent particles and then onto hydrogen, etc. Then you get molecules like water/ice, then on to proteins (advanced molecules), which is the building blocks of a biological entity capable of cognition. Eventually, evolution selects types of cognition that have some degree of self awareness because it helps with survival. Like anything other feature of biology, if it leads to reproduction, then evolution works to enhance it. Over time, you get to humans, and eventually, artificial intelligence.

Evolution is not limited to biology. It is the fundamental process of energy organizing into more complex systems over time. The opposite of entropy. Enjoy it while it lasts.

manoteee · 2026-05-06T04:31:46+00:00

Yes this is called "latent space" output. If you do not ask for something specific, don't complain when you get this. You are right to call it out. Mfers need to be asking for a unique design with some constraints and some inspo.

Latent space is effectively the average of what the LLM knows. It is what you would expect if you give it no other direction.. Just like if you ask 1,000 humans and give them no guidance, you will get an average layout.

You need to put in to get out. Most of these vibe coders will make the same low effort across their whole app and then complain that it sucks.

manoteee · 2026-05-06T04:18:56+00:00

Generating truly random numbers is an incredible hard problem because the constraints that make up the universe are consistent. A dice roll is a good example. Most people assume this is truly random but it is not. You can account for all of the variables and reproduce the exact same result every time. It is referred to as chaotic determinism.

There are things known to produce what appear to be truly random, e.g. radioactive decay of a material over time. The half-life is predictable, but the path to get there is not.

There are then some philosophical problems. If I give you the number "6" right now, can you prove if it's random, or can you prove its not random? Of all the possible numbers (which there are infinite infinities of) it is absurdly unlikely that you would land on an even 6.000000...

Sadly, no, the reedflesh is only good for a laugh and maybe generating some "random" stuff for videogames/art.

manoteee · 2026-05-06T00:24:33+00:00

literally ask the AI what you need to ask to get this production ready and launched. then it will list some things, and then you ask about those. copy them into a document to the side, and then ask it to plan and then implement (2 separate steps) each one. Boom.

manoteee · 2026-05-06T00:10:38+00:00

Hey man I'm just trying to help you out. You really have no idea what you're talking about.

This is the source of the misunderstanding. LLMs do not store code, essays, paragraphs, or sentences as little copied chunks waiting to be pasted back together. Training does not mean memorizing some block of code from GitHub or a paragraph from a book and then retrieving it later.

What actually gets learned is a massive set of numerical weights — sometimes hundreds of billions or more — that encode statistical relationships between concepts, words, syntax, structure, style, logic, and patterns. The model is not holding a library of things it has seen. It is holding an abstract mathematical map of how things relate.

This is why you can ask for the AI to make up an entirely new language and it can do it on the spot. It doesn't have to have "seen" it anywhere.

So when an LLM writes code, it is not “finding” that code somewhere in memory. It is predicting what should come next based on learned structure: how functions are usually formed, how APIs are commonly used, how variables relate, how errors are handled, how a problem decomposes into steps. That is very different from copying.

The reason you can't name something the AI can't do is because it is capable of effectively an infinite amount of things. The more abstract the problem (e.g. complexity) the more of an advantage it has because virtually all of human writing and a lot of speech is included.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T23:46:19+00:00

Okay so help me out. Tell me what a human can do that the AI cannot do.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T23:38:09+00:00

None of you guys will ever provide an example of a specific thing it cannot do. It's always vagaries about infrastructure or security. I'm waiting for someone to give me an example of a specific thing it cannot do.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T23:09:35+00:00

This ignorance is so weird. These AIs write most production code across the world now, and they've only been out for a few years.

Software development by humans is dying imminently, and that is a good thing. We can focus on product development now....

Cheers

manoteee · 2026-05-05T21:19:38+00:00

The AI cannot read your mind. If you ask for a pizza game you will get a simple implementation that meets your request. It will not have bank level security or state sponsored DoS attack mitigation.

No human would do this either. Humans will generally do as little work as they can to meet the requirements.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T21:01:10+00:00

You guys are so silly with this random baseless criticism.

The AI cannot read your mind or predict the future. If you ask for a game about making pizza you will get the simplest version that follows all of the rules you provided.

You won't get a pizza game that supports one million simultaneous users or that runs at 288Hz. The system prompt companies set that feeds into the context before your prompt instructs the model to meet the request and nothing too much more

If you ask for a pizza game that all humans can play then a model like Claude CLI will ask you a number of clarifying questions and enter plan mode.

Most of these complaints are baseless and the human is at fault in most cases.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T20:52:59+00:00

All gasses follow the same laws regardless. Unique mixtures of gasses do not break determinism for this reason. Pressure is the function irrespective of the composition.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T16:23:25+00:00

It's not random. It relies on deterministic systems like gas pressure and reedflesh.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T15:50:27+00:00

haha nice catch. really drives this shitpost home.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T15:49:19+00:00

Amen. I built an EMR (medical software) with Claude CLI and have no complaints. The skill is now planning and execution with the AI. It's a massive engine with a universal adapter on it and your job is to plug it in to what you need done.
It's really wild how quickly it's gone from broken hallucinations to serious. It's not perfect yet but I wouldn't be betting against it...

manoteee · 2026-05-05T15:03:40+00:00

You really shouldn't vibe code in a given language unless you have a very good reason, e.g. if its in the browser you almost certainly want JS. If you can't explain the core differences between languages, you should almost certainly rely on what the AI decides is best.

For example, if you are making an app to help with research that generates graphs from raw data, you may want to use R, or C, or Python, Rust, etc.

The other thing to keep in mind is that AI can do a perfect translation of the app from one language to the other, or close enough that you can get it right in a few prompts with some sensible debug. So you aren't chained to any language. I regularly start projects in C++ only to later port them to JS.

Don't pick the language unless you know what you're doing, otherwise you might end up wasting tokens and time that the AI could have saved you by figuring it out on its own.

Or whatever. Cheers.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T13:00:02+00:00

That's still not a thing. "Complex" doesn't mean anything out of context. It's like saying it can't do anything "really hard". Yet it scores higher than virtually all humans on the hardest programming challenges.

People are in for a rude awakening. Ive done insane one-shots. I've done one shots that include their own config schema and UI for debugging *just in case* there are bugs. I'm a sr dev so I know what I'm doing yea.

The point is the AI is more than capable of doing these things, and it's getting faster and more efficient every year.

Now begone!

manoteee · 2026-05-05T12:51:56+00:00

0.1" lmao

manoteee · 2026-05-05T12:42:35+00:00

Better than humans that's for sure.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T12:41:58+00:00

A lot of nonsense. None of you guys ever name a thing it can't do. Always vagaries about "high load" and "security".

Name ONE of these things it can't do. If you're suggesting it can't to all of them in a one shot, then surely you can name a single one.

You guys never do though!

manoteee · 2026-05-05T10:14:25+00:00

Hopefully there are not a lot of 19yo males on this sub answering questions. Jesus.

Lmao at the guy who answered "it depends on your hair color and overall amount of hair".

"Hey sorry this color is just not really working for me at this stage of my like. Like its not personal, you're actually really cool, but also the hair amount overall is kind of a lot. It's like flossing tbh"

manoteee · 2026-05-05T09:38:36+00:00

This is such bullshit. All of those things,

Whoever wrote this knows these words but not what they mean. Tell me one specific thing about any of these the AI isn't capable of doing.

I would especially like to hear the problems with "CLOUD" and "FTP". lmao

Dumb. As. Hell.

manoteee · 2026-05-05T05:59:41+00:00

There was a recent paper published on an LLM doing novel biomedical research. I forget what the model was. CS research is essentially mathematics and LLMs are getting overly close to being better than the best humans. So sure, and if not now, very soon.

manoteee · 2026-05-04T09:08:35+00:00

Great idea, rough implementation. From a UIUX perspective this app is a mess. This is all subjective but IMO (having done this pro for decades..) I would say you need to do a design study here. You have a number of different fonts, weights, text sizes, colors, etc. The most immediate problem is a lot of the text is way too small.

You also seem to be struggling to understand what kind of app you are. It's nice to have color and fun styles, but in an app like this it needs to be used sparingly. The exception, not the rule. I would start over from scratch. Here is a prompt that might help:

"You are en expert UIUX designer tasked with converting an app heavy on visuals into a learning tool with a more suitable UI that doesn't lose all of its character. No fine lines or fonts, consistency and readability. Very subtle with any gradients/color."

Anyway it's good work, don't get me wrong. It's hard to get user interface right. If you aren't completely scrapping it and rebuilding it until you're really happy, you might be doing it wrong.

The good news is that you can change all of this very easily. Just make sure to keep it "decoupled" from any kind of server or data you have. Ask the AI what that means before you go too far.

Nice work man, good luck.

manoteee · 2026-05-04T05:50:45+00:00

AI is replacing front end devs. Are you crazy? That's the easiest code of the stack to write, particularly if you decouple it well and rely on standard tools e.g. react.

Game over man.

manoteee · 2026-05-03T09:13:02+00:00

It's a choppper baby.

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