LLMs will never be people. Computers might be, one day in the very distant future. But literally every piece of the current AI hype train is just hype. LLMs could, maybe, at best, be a single piece of a much larger puzzle for bringing consciousness into being. But the “Just Add More Compute Bro!” mantra is just tech bros doing their market hype thing. It has as much chance of giving rise to consciousness as my PC has whenever I add another hard drive.

Also, Sayaka’s Digital Attic is an actual good channel; she does interesting board repair work and has been at it since long before December of 2025

Putting money into something does not make you a creator. Investor, sure. Patron, maybe. Not a creator.

He didn’t create jack shit. He bought into a wave that had already been rising and took all the credit because it was his money funding the ads. But he got involved late and had little to no involvement in design. He was happy to destroy it because he sees more money in cozying up to this administration, getting regulations relaxed, and getting government subsides for his other investments.

Just don’t ever give him credit as a creator of any kind. He wrote some shitty early code for PayPal in the 90s or something. That’s the most he’s ever “created.”

Which raises the question of why it’s on the front page here.

I fail to see how these are mutually exclusive

What a reach

Last time I heard him say something was “completely dead” it was about Heichachi

Huesos de gato

Theremin Theocrat

I’m not familiar with ProtonVPN configuration so can’t guide you much there, presumably if the port forwarding option only allows for one setting then maybe it’s doing both TCP/UDP? I dunno…

Maybe that’s a good place for me to do some digging, but this is an issue specific to the new torrent I made. Things I download first seed just fine, and at much higher rates when I have the port open, so I think that’s working normally regardless of any TCP/UDP stuff under the hood.

can the test torrent client see that there is a seed on the torrent?

I think I misread this. No, neither client sees any peers, but when viewing the trackers within the client, the trackers are reporting peers. I’ll keep what I originally typed in the spoiler below.

Always good to double check, but yes, I used canyouseeme and the port is definitely open.

The port is configured through ProtonVPN. A few menu options below the one for port forwarding there’s another for configuring the connection as OpenVPN(TCP), OpenVPN(UDP), or Wireguard. I’ve had other issues in the past and Transmission’s internal port testing thing always specifies it’s testing TCP, so that’s what I had it set to with Proton. I switched Proton to UDP and am waiting a few minutes before testing it with Wireguard.

lol well with Proton’s Wireguard config it doesn’t seem like I can open a port at all, so I’ve set that back to TCP for now.

Could I be missing a step with the trackers? Do I need to upload something to them first? I looked around on opentrackr.org and didn’t see anything, plus in the client the trackers are reporting 1 seeder (me) and leechers, plus it worked when I opened the port on my test leech… I’m so lost :(

Something that’s helped me before is to start reading out loud

Windows doesn’t generally break things? Weird, I wonder why I’ve been having to tour my clients’ homes and having to either circumvent their arbitrary 11 requirements or install a pirated version of 10 LTSC. Must be a fluke. Besides, Microsoft is following every tech company and trying to replace actual programmers with AI, so I’m sure they’ll never fuck anything up again.

And the instructions online for how to fix things are NEVER easier. What on earth? Troubleshooting Windows for the last 15 years has meant browsing a dozen forum posts with your exact issue and getting nothing but a bunch of script-following helpdesk people taking 3 paragraphs to ultimately tell you to restart your computer. And now, on top of all that garbage, you have to sort past a bunch of generated garbage articles. Better hope someone posted your problem on Reddit and didn’t get their post deleted for whatever reason cuz there’s no way to find anything useful otherwise

why the trees got buttholes

It wasn’t a censor, OP just got a little too excited

They do simultaneous workloads but each load is essentially performing the same function. A person, on the other hand, is a huge variety of differing functions all working in tandem; a set of vastly different operations that are all inextricably linked together to form who we are. No single form of generative algorithm is anything more than a tiny fraction of what we think of as a conscious being. They might perform the one operation they’re meant for on a much greater scale than we do, but we are nowhere near linking all those pieces together in a meaningful, cohesive stream.

Edit, think of the algorithms like adding more cores to a CPU. Sure, you can process workloads simultaneously, but each workload is interchangeable and can be arbitrarily assigned to each core or thread. Not so with people. Every single operation is assigned to a specialized part of the brain that only does that one specific type of operation. And you can’t just swap out the RAM or GPU; every piece is wired specifically to interact with only the other pieces they were grown together with.

I think it’s a bit overzealous to say LLMs are the wrong approach. It is possible the math behind them would be useless to a true AI, but as far as I can tell, the only definitive statement we can make right now is that they can’t be the whole approach. Still, you’re absolutely right that there is a huge set of operations we haven’t figured out yet if we want a genuine AI.

My understanding of consciousness is that it isn’t one single sequence of operations, but a set of simultaneous ones. There’s a ton of stuff all happening at once for each of our senses. Take sight, for example. Just to see things, we need to measure light intensity, color definition, and spacial relationships, and then mix that all together in a meaningful way. Then we have to balance each of our senses, decide which one to focus on in the moment, or even to focus on several at once. And that hasn’t even touched on thoughts, emotions, social relationships, unconscious bodily functions, or the systems in place that let us switch things back and forth between conscious and unconscious, like breathing, or blinking, or walking, and so on. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of operations happening in our brains simultaneously at any given moment.

So, without a doubt, LLMs aren’t the most energy efficient way to do pattern recognition. But I find it hard to believe that a strong system for pattern recognition would be fully unusable in a greater system. If/when we figure the rest out, I’m sure an LLM could be used as a piece of a much greater puzzle… if we wanted to burn all that energy.

“Ah but you see, it’s not misleading at all! You really are purchasing a temporary license to watch the content!”

Considering how much leeway we give food companies to lie about how they label their products, I have absolutely no faith we’ll correct the advertising here either

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