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H8crilA··on 5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe
Not if Count Binface wins the elections.

First the UK, then leadership of Europe via behind-closed-doors politics, then a gentle colonization of both the east and the west using our amazing cheese, bread that is baked rather than synthesized from fossil fuels, and 30 days of paid vacations per year. The path forward is clear.

H8crilA··on My falling-out with the rationalist community
Yes, those that work in intelligence, sort of. The depth and character of application of this rule depends on a particular country. For example nearly all of them would justify a few murders to keep trade routes open.
H8crilA··on Can you build a recognizable World Map in under 500 bytes?
Any decent compressor will take care of this - and much more.
H8crilA··on I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
When I started reading it I thought for far too long that this person is actually stupi^H^H^H^H^H serious. So writing that it is satire is useful for people that do not read enough of the text, and just jump into the comments :) Also, this type of behavior has little to do with the neurodivergent spectrum, if anything it touches personality types, maybe maybe some trauma or addiction, unlikely to be caused by anything in the affective space (episodes would be too short) or psychosis space.
H8crilA··on How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?
Why would you even generate fake pictures of this type? Don't you already have real ones? I mean, it's actually more work, unless you don't have the real ones.
H8crilA··on Data centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of US
That's about 0.25% of total water consumption. I.e. the entire country uses about that much per day.
H8crilA··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
Why would it ever be more economical to put datacenters in orbit, rather than on some dirt cheap land?
H8crilA··on India's surprise baby bust
Every single population goes through a baby bust when a certain level of development is achieved - women education seems to be a particularly strongly correlated sub-component.
H8crilA··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious
Yes, that is the definition of consciousness (you care about them).
H8crilA··on Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute
Latest filing, as of end of March 2026, shows $126.8B in total cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities:

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001652044/0...

I guess they don't want to burn it down to $40B?

H8crilA··on Dav2d
Dav3.1416d
H8crilA··on It's Not Just X. It's Y
It's not just an unlock. It's a major discovery.
H8crilA··on Greg Brockman interview [video]
As far as Brockman account of the past goes, there's also his personal diary which was made public as a part of that lawsuit by Musk. Includes for example the line: "Financially what will take me to $1B?". BTW, if you don't know, Musk lost it because he filed too late, lol.
H8crilA··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
That was my point, make it so that apps can run on that RAM budget. At least some apps.
H8crilA··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
It would make memory-poor phones more viable. Like why can't we have a 512MB, or even 256MB RAM phone. Although I doubt that the software effort would be cheaper than just buying the extra RAM. It's definitely much more uncertain.
H8crilA··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
I'm trolling, figured some people would actually spend time thinking about this. Wasn't wrong :)
H8crilA··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
Exactly. Just like paracetamol and autism. Like that's a difficult decision, duh.
H8crilA··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
I assure you that I am not conscious (and a human, not an LLM). Therefore at least partial solipsism is true.
H8crilA··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
I am pretty sure I am not conscious, and this seems to solve the entire problem that other people have.
H8crilA··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
I do wonder how many more people would be open to ECT if instead of using the electrical pulse we would give people some drug that causes a brief seizure. Right after the anesthesia, of course, just like now - but there's no electricity involved. I don't even know if such a safe drug exists.
H8crilA··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
I suggest you read some publications on the topic, and not internet forum conspiracies.
H8crilA··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
My point exactly. I am not saying psychedelics do not help people, they clearly help some people with some problems. But the balance of research and general interest is not proportional to how promising both paths already look. For example, which treatments are safer long term? It's unclear. At the same time it's clear that there can be unwanted long term side effects. In one very particular case, pregnant women that unfortunately do need something, we already know from physics and data on anesthesia that ECT is the better choice.
H8crilA··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
I always wonder why ECT doesn't get more press. It very very often works on depression (and bipolar disorder, catatonia; anything affective-related really), although the effects may wane over time when the treatment is discontinued. Memory loss is one of the side effects, and it could actually be beneficial here.
H8crilA··on OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
OpenClaw has surprisingly few "dumb" bugs. Is it as stable and secure as the Linux kernel? God no, obviously not. But it has never just crashed for me, for example. Bugs are of the type "X with Y and Z disabled and T turned on - doesn't work", where you're likely one of a few people that have ever tried this combination. Not to mention it can then debug itself and file a bug report, with a bugfix - if you give it a GitHub token.

I run it in a firewalled VM and am very conscious about any tokens I give it access to - so far for all I know this was unnecessary.

PS. for me the core feature of OpenClaw isn't the cron, though that is nice. It's the memory and instant extensibility. Like it takes 5-15 minutes to add an SSH tool where all agent requests go through a manual review, together with a good auto loaded description that just works in all future sessions.

H8crilA··on Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
Doubt it. LLMs will always be more expensive per-token than compilers, and high level languages need fewer tokens than machine code. Also, type systems, warnings, overlap with natural language in names - those are very useful.
H8crilA··on Googlebook
You forgot the user must want to own it over other products.
H8crilA··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
The most important skill is to not stand out of the crowd. This is how you survive in the Soviet Union, in the army, and clearly also at tech companies.
H8crilA··on US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
Shut up and read FBI scans of The Saucer Convention flyers.
H8crilA··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened
EvroSoyuz is just a better offer, comrade. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

PS. Ever since the full scale war started I finally learned Cyrillic, and I must say - there is something nice about this alphabet (if you speak a Slavic language, of course). Sadly we don't have an official Cyrillic version of Polish, though, my compatriots would have their brains explode if someone promoted one.

H8crilA··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
To explain the joke, a Żabka is like a 7-Eleven, but there is way more of them per unit of area. And they have more services in offer.
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