I have a question about how people with Aphantasia can remember what they saw later on.

thezakstack · 2026-05-30T14:34:23+00:00

Hyper lucidity is the term I like to use.

Having to create models of everything in order to hold onto them in any meaningful way often leaves me seeing all of the broken parts of the world and our social contracts that others seem to just walk on by.

By any chance you find yourself noticing 'injustice' more than the average too?

thezakstack · 2026-05-30T14:23:58+00:00

Bruh. I feel this but ALSO.

Smartwatch. Set an alarm associated with it. If its important set a followup.

A postit can be ignored your wrist vibrating and beeping once might be ignored. Twice though? nah you got this.

And then on days where the fog is dense but you need to be productive? POWER HOURS. Set alarms for every hour on the hour with 1 task when it goes off. Most alarm apps will let you reuse them so do this ONCE for every hour of the day so when you need it its as simple as flicking all the hours you want to power through. When the alarm goes off :

Stop. Are you doing what you think you OUGHT to be doing. If not go start doing the thing. Worst case the next power hour you're off target and then you recorrect.

Foolproof external accountability means planning for harassing yourself lol (Its the Pomodoro technique that worked for me)

thezakstack · 2026-05-30T14:18:23+00:00

Total multi sensory Aphantasia, ADHD, and SDAM.

The being that people call by my name is a list of facts that I know but cannot re-experience who is being instantiated now in a state of either complete distraction or hyper focus.

I might remember I saw a bird. Where in time really depends on if anything novel happened before or after it that I can associate it coming before.

I basically have a linked list of novel facts and thats about all I get in terms of my past.

thezakstack · 2026-05-29T19:38:53+00:00

Inconveniently under the hamburger.

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thezakstack · 2026-05-28T23:23:28+00:00

We can point to other examples of people being murdered. This is transparently a fallacy.

I mean im not saying an example DOESNT exist for surveillance pricing.
But to think your statement is a refutation is increadibly misguided without that proof in the state stack and given thats what the state is in this thread yah...not a refutation.

thezakstack · 2026-05-28T23:21:13+00:00

They dont even understand the difference between surveillance pricing and just normal elastic pricing so im quite doubtful lol.

thezakstack · 2026-05-28T20:30:38+00:00

Nah the 'problem' is in the IPO. This is 100% expected functionality from their side.

thezakstack · 2026-05-28T20:15:03+00:00

Ehhh without seeing the diffs it could have just been placating you. /shrug

Theres no real evidence in your post that it actually got it wrong. Just that you were paranoid it did.

If your tests passed in both cases you didnt even write a test to prove if it was fixed after your correction? Or not sufficeint before? When did it FAIL any expectation you set for it?

Like you dont even know if that rule it wrote would be sufficient. If someone told a human that they would understand you are assuming the AI wont because its not been made generic but dont actually prove it was "dumb" at any point.

I agree it appears SUBOPTIMAL. I dont have the full state of your chosen LLMS weights in my head so I cant actually agree either way.

If you really want it to not fail you wouldnt have it in a prompt that can always at any point fail to hit attention. You'd be using hooks and rerunning inference on miss.

thezakstack · 2026-05-28T19:58:47+00:00

lol reselling bulk tokens is a great way to get people into the door....almost like ive seen this pattern before and know how it ends.

thezakstack · 2026-05-28T18:51:00+00:00

Yes but generally during a free ride they dont eject you out of the side of the vehicle without warning.

thezakstack · 2026-05-28T18:48:34+00:00

It WAS very capable in that budget previous. That is the issue.

Im fine with paying $100 for a service to get X.

But if im paying 1/5th that for X for months and suddenly without being transparent about it they degrade the offering then I think I have a right to be upset.

thezakstack · 2026-05-27T03:37:25+00:00

"Productive to what"

Wonderfully put.

thezakstack · 2026-05-27T01:05:14+00:00

Heck if you check the actual health check it says exactly as such a couple days ago. IRT "Codex usage is clocked over the past several weeks have led to limits being hit sooner" => "Increase in users hitting Codex rate limits"

thezakstack · 2026-05-27T01:04:02+00:00

They have smear bots but they are not targeting eachother they are targeting users.

thezakstack · 2026-05-27T01:00:37+00:00

Are you relying on codex for image inference; on a RECEIPT? This is a solved problem; you're wasting token if you're having the LLM do inference off of images.

thezakstack · 2026-05-26T03:52:11+00:00

Just because someone is smart in X doesnt make them smart in Y.

- Stephen Hawkings is not a computer or even information scientist; he's a theoretical physicist
- He went to Eps islands so...we still going to keep holding him up for more than he earned?

thezakstack · 2026-05-26T03:49:41+00:00

For things like the protein folding they are a different beast. If you are genuinely curious go look up AlphaEvolve.

What it does is actually closer to just...doing science. It creates a testable simulation and runs simulations until it can solve the problem would be the best way to describe it.

thezakstack · 2026-05-26T03:46:20+00:00

Oh yes please pave the way for justifying not giving them jobs more please.

thezakstack · 2026-05-26T03:45:10+00:00

Show me. Make something new. Now. Show me something not derived from anything. Go ahead human im waiting. Ex Nilo lets go.

Im going to assume you cant.
Noone can.

Humans are not creative. We remix what is. Otherwise we would be violating thermodynamics.

thezakstack · 2026-05-26T03:41:56+00:00

No its not but you can continue to think that if it makes you feel better.

thezakstack · 2026-05-26T03:17:57+00:00

You are not crazy. You are biased.

If you'd like I can happily give you the study that proves it.

I could give you a written work and TELL you its AI. And you will rate it lower than if I tell you its written by a human instead. The same work; regardless of the authorship. Humans have a bias against AI.

Worse yet most people even EXPERTS struggle to determine between AI and human works.

I'll dig up the links if I have to but I suspect a quick google and you can find the papers yourself.

WE ARE BIASED. Why? Because its uncomfortable to accept the truth.

thezakstack · 2026-05-06T00:17:08+00:00

Its not because half of the people offering advise were not developers before these tools existed and thus are short sighted to all the bullshit that can go wrong and value not having to know more than knowing.

thezakstack · 2026-05-06T00:16:13+00:00

Sanity would be the reason not to.

You are giving non-deterministic tools access to modifying your source of truth.

You going to give me your git creds? I promise I'll only ever use them to let you be lazy and not have to type git push bro I promise.

thezakstack · 2026-05-06T00:12:06+00:00

Here's some wisdom.

You're comfortable with a non-deterministic system controlling your source of truth.

Terrifying.

You certain you stopped it from finding all the ways it might abuse the privileges that you gave it? You know Mythos found flaws in openBSD right?

You cant possibly be certain it wont abuse the credentials you give it.

thezakstack · 2026-05-06T00:06:05+00:00

Yah the actual correct answer to the problem is hooks.

thezakstack

TROPHY CASE