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A lot of this comes down to what you define consciousness as... I'm not even going to attempt that here because it's irrelevant. Let's say you have a simulation of a person that do…

I mentioned this could be a possible falsification of the idea. It's also possible there are multiple causes and the modality I mentioned is a cause for some. I'm not sure. There a…

A hypothesis is an unverified tentative insight into something which could be true. Current research is correlating dementia with a wide variety of areas including even personality…

I have a kind of outlandish hypothesis that needs more research before it can be taken seriously, but it basically says that the cause and effect are backwards. Mental atrophy due …

Link to the referenced study (open access): "The good judge of intelligence" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028962...

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Throwing this into your global CLAUDE.md seems to help with the agent being too eager to complete tasks and bypass permissions: During tool use/task execution: completion drive nar…

Unfortunately it didn't work for me with my trackball mouse. I tried multiple times. This is very likely also problematic for accessibility without another verification pathway, as…

I published a model you can use now to help detect sycophantic AI responses before they harm users. It rejects 100% of the sycophantic delusion affirming responses from psychosis-b…

I'm still experimenting with it and finding out what works and what doesn't, but I have made some side projects with Claude including a web framework that doesn't require a build s…

It uses one of Mozilla's models: https://huggingface.co/fakespot-ai/roberta-base-ai-text-dete... It has a pretty high false positive rate though, but it reliably highlights AI gene…

The amount of medical advice on those LLM content farms is very concerning, someone is going to get hurt eventually. I recently made a user script that tries to highlight LLM gener…

This bash config allows you to cd directly to the most commonly used directory with a specific name. It also has tab autocomplete. It does require logging all used directories thou…

There is a driver and firmware for sigrok for using the PI Pico that was posted to Hackaday a while back. It hasn't been merged upstream yet but I got it up and running today just …

I have found that a useful way to evade antivirus issues with PyInstaller is to build my own copy of the bootloader and encourage use of the 64 bit version over the 32 bit version …

I have been using this "magic cd" alias for a while. You just type c and then the name of a folder, and it will find the most commonly visited folder with that name from your histo…

I would say that YouTube is a notable exception here. There is a lot of music to be discovered and I personally rarely watch videos there without sound.

Plex uses a combination of wildcard certificates and a custom DNS resolver to offer HTTPS on local networks, but it does require a working internet connection to work. [1] You can …

I bought a bunch of Micro USB cables for the same reason. Most of the ones I had on hand didn't have data lines as they were only for charging, which can be fun to troubleshoot as …

I always tell users to Mark the file as trusted before running it, which is easier to do and less subject to difficult to navigate dialogs. I use a message like this: > To avoid ge…

If you have bash you could use the /dev/tcp feature to download files: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-using-bashs-built-... The trick would be finding a download that is…

This is difficult to handle without some centralized authority. One example I can think of is Aether [1], which has a non-decentralized blacklist for illegal content [2] that they …

This reminds me of "Hyrum's Law": "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be…

I made a script to do this a while back for cutting intros off of videos. https://gist.github.com/iwalton3/c034ec5a942466206fbee859184... The notable function that does video cuts …