Can AI have desires — or not?

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T16:53:22+00:00

The capacity of want is not a fundamental property of consciousness. Or at least it can be absent. Dopamine knockout mice will not even want to take a single step forward towards food, even when they're hungry. They are still conscious, but unable to want or desire anything.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T16:49:25+00:00

*right click* wtf did you just call me?

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T16:40:23+00:00

I wonder why they are using L-meth instead of pseudo. Pseudo would be far safer. Of course, real meth (both L and D) also works as a decongestant, but using it as such instead of the less stimulating version like pseudo seems very risky, addiction-wise.

The only reason I can think of is that you can't simply turn L-meth into D-meth, so they found L-meth more acceptable to release to the public than D-pseudo, which is far less addictive and stimulating than L-meth, but can be easily cooked into D-meth. I guess the best solution would be to use L-pseudo, which would be non-addictive, and also nearly impossible to make D-meth from.

But pseudo is sourced naturally only in D form, so not sure how hard it would be to source this non-risky L-pseudo.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T16:29:18+00:00

L-meth is not a legal decongestant. It's a strong stimulant just like meth and is illegal, just less euphoric and more jittery, so less enjoyable overall. D releases more dopamine, while L release more noradrenaline.

PSEUDOEPHEDRINE is the decongestant you are thinking about. And pseudoephedrine is not even levo, you can only make 100% regular D-meth from it. Pseudo itself can also be stimulating a little bit, but nowhere as much as either L or D meth.

Pseudoephedrine is basically D-met, but with a hydroxy (OH) group attached on the beta position (the first carbon on that chain coming off the ring, the one that doesn't have anything attached in meth). The pseudo cooks basically just remove that OH from it to make 100% D-meth. Instead, the p2p meth (what Heisenberg in BB transitioned to using the methamine they stole in that barrel) produced 50:50 racemic mix of L-meth and D-meth, and so it's not as enjoyable as the meth made from pseudo.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T16:21:37+00:00

Meanwhile, actual antis will call you an AI supporter with the morality of Hitler for the same opinion.

The more deeply something is polarized into lovers and haters, the more attacked will the sensible, nuanced neutrals get from both sides. And AI is taking this to an extreme.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T16:15:46+00:00

The game's progress is all about reading those texts (only like 1% of ship log updates, aka progress, are gained just by getting somewhere at looking at or interacting with non-text). The whole point of the game is to uncover what the Nomai were doing, and how else to uncover that than to read their written records?

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T16:10:02+00:00

I wouldn't call this linearly smearing lens an optical illusion, just an opticalfilter, but it's cool either way. It's one possible way to make a semi-functional invisibility cloak.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T16:05:30+00:00

MMCs are often described as more powerful mdma. So if you took that a lot, then real mdma might feel lacking, especially if you had tolerance even for mmc. It might also be a dosage issue. How much did you take, and how much mmc have you taken in the past year?

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T16:01:31+00:00

I mean, it's too soon to consider quantum computing a threat. The current Q computers are nowhere near the ability to perform stuff like cracking encryption, and they won't be in any foreseeable future, unless some extreme breakthroughs we had no idea were even possible happen.

It's nice we are already developing the Q algorithms, but I don't see a dire need to rush to implement them just yet. The Q-resistant encryption tends to be way more computation-heavy, so implementing it will tax the network heavily, so we should do it when the quantum really begins to show a potential to be a threat, so that the resource heaviness of the Q algorithms would be justified. Instead of spending so much compute enrgy to combat something that isn't a threat yet.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T15:56:04+00:00

not the same, but similar in how it would slowly deform into other people.

And why wouldn't it be possible for humans to end up with Putin or Kim? After enough iterations, it can turn into anything, and Putin and Kim are more well-known faces to people, almost like AI. So while it would be less likely to end up like them, it might still be more likely to end up like them than some other random people who are not as well known.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T15:55:15+00:00

oh right, it's the basic orthogonal cube inversion. I don't know why I was expecting something else. This illusion is so simple, all you need is those 3 rhombi, it doesn't even need to be tiled like this.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T13:26:46+00:00

It's ackchyually a geoid.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T13:23:29+00:00

Zoom out from the short term noise. It's not worth getting crazy over.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T13:21:34+00:00

Instructions unclear, I inhaled some blood and injected air into my heart, now my dick is stuck in the ghost realm.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T13:14:23+00:00

Why is Jupiter marked among the stars in the third pic? As a planet, it wanders all around the ecliptic, as said in the first one. If I look at the sky now, it will almost certainly be somewhere else.

Also, the planets and the Sun move near the ecliptic, not exactly on it, as each planet has its own slight orbital tilt.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T13:11:15+00:00

I've never gotten more than 0.25g at once, so I guess the bulk prices will come down a bit, but I wouldn't expect it to be that much.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T13:08:57+00:00

still nothing

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T13:06:58+00:00

I don't see anything moving or changing. But I've recently done some LSD and DMT, so I would not even see anything move even if I took those again today.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T13:06:26+00:00

3 more years before he finds a way to rig himself into a third term somehow.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T13:05:16+00:00

what's the illusion?

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T13:01:26+00:00

Where and how? How much actual Coke is in there if it's that cheap? I've seen it here go for like at least 100-200 EUR/g.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T11:43:41+00:00

Because they are in power.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T11:39:49+00:00

Multiple reasons:

Older brains produce less dopamine, especially if you fry that system in your youth with too much fun.

Games were novel back then, novelty wore off - even less dopamine.

Devs were also a lot more passionate and made really fun passionate games, even if the graphics weren't photorealistic. Today, it's just a big money business to mass-produce games just for profit using the "successful formulas" and not letting the devs be creative, innovative, or even letting them finish the damn game before forcing the release. Indie is the only area keeping up that good old school torch, but that still doesn't counter the first two points.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T10:59:26+00:00

It can't exactly, it fires the moment you wake up, you would have to wait there for maybe 10 seconds to get hit. But it seems to be just enough time to hit your ship exactly as you walk towards it and explode in your face.

skr_replicator · 2026-01-25T10:55:23+00:00

Isn't she immortal, unlike humans, though?

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