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Long before this Matt video, I've done just that. A generator of devilish no-image jigsaw puzzles :-) which I indeed wanted to do a little Show HN someday. I made a small python sc…

Tm. I checked that it seems to be non-toxic, and don't corrode as much as the siblings. The issue is that its melting and boiling point are very near.

I have a cute somewhat related story. I wanted to make really unique rings, so I decided to make them from some random metal from the forgotten realms of the periodic table. I aske…

As a sibling comment put, the Scott Aaronson post has lots of interesting questions about this. Do the aliens who are watching us being simulated inside matrix think we are actuall…

I've been working on computatioinal modelling consciousness and came to similar conclusions: there is a continuum between patterns of matter that have consciousness (humans and oth…

I have entertained the idea (if you believe in the quantum many worlds) that everyone will experience themselves as aging to infinitely old age, because in the parallel worlds, wel…

There was this numerical calculus class at Uni where the teacher forbid us to use the calculator. So I just programmed the integral on it, got the partial steps, and just wrote ran…

I've thought a lot about exactly these limits to AI. The reliability problem will be solved sooner or later. Same for tacit skills that somebody trains into AI (manage people, do l…

That's funny, because I'm a PAID subscriber to The Economist, and on opening the page, there is a big ad banner on the top and other on the right, filling more than half the space.…

I was thinking on buying/building one robot like this to experiment. Can one fit more than one manipulator on it (so it could more easily do things like hang out clothes, or hold a…

I have for some time planning to do a 'Wikipedia for AI' (even bought a domain), where people could contribute all sorts of these skills ( not only 3d video, but also manual skills…

Why not allow the players to 'create' new cards on the fly and the LLM balance it automatically? So that one would feel like an 'real' wizard. Curiousy I was thinking on how to act…

I did a little python script some time ago to solve just problems like this. It is meant to be more educative than fast, though, and doesn't handle non-right angles (like pytaghore…