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Anon84on The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness

I would argue that, before we can begin to address whether or not AI can instantiate consciousness, we should agree on a practical, unequivocal definition of what consciousness is... and I think we're still pretty far from that milestone... Until then, this kind of argument are nothing more than pipe dreams, solipsism, and idle philosophising

Anon84on What Elon Musk's Clash with Sam Altman of OpenAI Is About

https://archive.md/ZrzdI

Anon84on The incredible double life of a spyware salesman turned spy

https://archive.md/DCQ3i

Anon84on The coming global food crisis

https://archive.md/17xxd

Anon84on Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?

Thank you

Anon84on Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?

That’s interesting, thank you.

Anon84on Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?

Thank you, that’s helpful.

Anon84on Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?

Thank you for the thoughtful answer

Anon84on The Greatest Deal Google Ever Made: Buying DeepMind

https://archive.md/S0wHd

Anon84on The Incredible Story of the Cartel Olympics

https://archive.md/NaZog

Anon84on Claude's Cycles [pdf]

It goes back a bit further than that. His 1948 “Mathematical theory of communication” [1] already has (what we would now call) a Markov chain language model, page 7 onwards. AFAIK, this was based on his classified WWII work so it was probably a few years older than that

[1] https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)

     Location: NYC
     Remote: Yes
     Willing to relocate: No
     Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs, LangChain, CrewAI
     Résumé/CV: By request
     Website: https://www.data4sci.com
     GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/
     Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/
     Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com

Anon84on Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)

Are those considered colonies or territories?

Anon84on Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)

A lot of which are Sino-Portuguese from Macau that moved (or their families moved) after Macau was returned to China...

Anon84on Portugal: The First Global Empire (2015)

Technically, also the last global empire. Macau wasn't returned to China until 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Macau

Anon84on Anthropic Takes Aim at OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Debut

https://archive.md/6xiWl

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

     Location: NYC
     Remote: Yes
     Willing to relocate: No
     Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs
     Résumé/CV: By request
     Website: https://www.data4sci.com
     GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/
     Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/
     Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com

Anon84on UAE launches 'sovereign' open AI model to counter Chinese rivals

https://archive.is/V8Jvh

Anon84on Pretend to work: China's novel solution to youth unemployment

https://archive.md/G2RaF

Anon84on You're Getting 'Screen Time' Wrong

https://archive.is/lS1Uw

Anon84on Ask HN: Share your personal website

    - Academic: www.bgoncalves.com
    - Consulting: www.data4sci.com
    - Substack: data4sci.substack.com

Anon84on The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Remember Moab!

Anon84on Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?

https://archive.md/moogV

Anon84on The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café

True, “The Unbearable Lightness of…” is a much better choice

Anon84on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

That's some impressively fast automatic rejection system you got there :)

Anon84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

     Location: NYC
     Remote: Yes
     Willing to relocate: No
     Technologies: Machine Learning, Python, LLMs
     Résumé/CV: By request
     Website: https://www.data4sci.com
     GitHub: https://github.com/DataForScience/
     Substack: http://data4sci.substack.com/
     Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com

Anon84on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

Get better at finding freelance/consulting gigs. I’ve been doing it on and off on the side for a few years now and want to move to doing it full time.

Advice welcome!

Anon84on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

I’ve been working towards my WSET diploma so not much non-wine related fun reading. That being said:

     - Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the world by Christy Campbell is a surprisingly fun read on how the entire wine industry was almost destroyed in the late 19th century.
      - Red/Green/Blue Mars by K. S. Robinson hard sci-fi about mars colonization and terraforming. First rereading in 20 years or so. Holds up extremely well.
      - Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. A thought provoking take on how broad stroke human history developed since the Bronze Age.

Anon84on The battle to stop clever people betting

https://archive.md/7fvLz

Anon84on Approaching 50 Years of String Theory

Wasting two generations of some of the most brilliant physics minds isn’t exactly a good thing