nakedneuron

another example of a fabricated hype.

who cares about this?

Thanks for sharing! Today I discovered the Jibun Techo. Always great to discover products made by people who put so much thought and craft in. Not surprising the Japanese excel in this art.

Set the mood for today.

Unfortunately can't upvote.. your karma says 6666. May return when the spell is broken.

I'm sure thr plan was to build a holodeck all the time..

As soon as we'll have sufficiently advanced BMIs the so called hard problem will go away by itself.

Consider probing a midlevel mobile phone at some hundred contacts. You might be convinced to have a thorough account of the physical reality yet still no idea of (and no way to know) whats going on.

To the problem of qualia.. I think it's the mechanism of the brain to default-name recurring patterns, being part of a simplification/compression process, without which reasoning (computing) or reasonably storing experiences would be impossible. I guess visual qualia like color and shape have to be the first things the brain learns and attaches "default" symbols to. Consider other basic qualia too, like to be saturated, to feel warm and then higher qualia that build on these like to feel loved or accepted in a social community.

It's difficult to argue how there could be a fundamental truth to qualia. But consider that there'd be no difference in our communication, even if your red is attached to a symbol signified by 8NCYUW6D0H5C (lets just assume this) while my red is encoded as being GAUTP1P6YUUZ (those patterns obviously have to be encoded as frequency patterns as we perceive close colors as similar without computational overhead). Eventually it will turn out, qualia from person to person are encoded quite similar, as we are genetically so similar. But consider also synaesthetia. Wrt animals, it WOULD feel strange to be a bat or any other animal as some of their sensory apparatus is so different.

To this, author makes a good point: "Today, we do not have an exhaustive external account, but this is not the same as having proof that no such account is possible."

I imagine consciousness as 'theater mode' of the perceiving mind. As such it seems to be one part of the brain that integrates all sensory inputs into one Multimodal Experience Stream™.

As to TFA.. - I'm by no means up to date to the current affairs of the consciousness debate, but - is there really a "fierce debate [...] raging"?

Check out Joscha Bach who argues consciousness is an illusion. Looking for some material to back up, I hit on this text. Flying over it I already find it more enlightening than the posted article, so I post it here (without guarantee):

https://medium.com/@mbonsign/consciousness-as-illusion-explo...

Some (citated) citations from it:

"The simulation becomes “more real than real” in our experience because it constitutes the entirety of our conscious access to ourselves and the world (Metzinger, 2003; Seth, 2021)."

"This perspective doesn’t diminish the richness or importance of conscious experience. On the contrary, it highlights the remarkable complexity and sophistication of the processes that generate our subjective experience. The constructed nature of consciousness isn’t a defect or limitation but a remarkable achievement — a way of making an unimaginably complex reality manageable for finite cognitive systems (Clark, 2016; Dennett, 2017)."

Please also note https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180487 and consider joining my cult.

Boom.. there we go again..

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40554217 > Philosophy seems to be concerned with furniture a lot)

> If we do not fall into the error of dualism upfront, we can safely speak of > soul and emotions just as we speak of a kitchen table, even if the table is > also a collection of atoms.

Did you check out "Appendix I: Wi-Fi signal strength vs distance"? Cheers!

SHIT.. I figured that one..

Any George Hart aficionados around..?

For me, the Bach of electronic music..

seems like there are still ongoing efforts for digital currency aside from crypto and state-backed currencies.. OSS, this could be it.

> In order to enable you to make such contributions, we will award at least > 676000 euro in small to medium-size R&D grants towards technology commons that > empower users, and establish a new generation of privacy-friendly digital > payments systems. The programme will run between now and November 2026, but > budgets are limited — so grab your opportunity.

last time i tried, i didnt get the standalone mode to run.. there seems to have been an update in february, so i will give this another try when there's time..

(context: https://github.com/bernhard-42/vscode-ocp-cad-viewer/)

as someone mentioned recently somebody made this build123d-playground on the web:

https://jojain.github.io/build123d-sandbox/

learning curve is steep, but the examples get you going in no time..

though not really CAD, favorite example: https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples_1.html#c...

shows the ability of this implementation of the open cascade kernel.. i havent found this kind of projection function too often in other cad programs, so this is really cool.. i remember trying to do similar with ptc creo and it was a pain..

> the point was never yourself.

> It was never the pyramid.

> It was never the optimization.

> It was the people around the fire.

GPT Mildly Interesting

Supermarket checkout with a round amount feels like winning some lottery, admittedly.

This. Nailed it.

Isn't that how Bitcoin "works"?

Great idea. As a "visual type" this would be so much more intuitive to decipher. I prefer TUIs over GUI exactly because they're simpler and work hard to focus on the essential. This is low hanging fruit to enhance TUIs.

Hard agree.

Agree. Gist of the FA is about "calm technology". Title should reflect it better.

Also agree on everything author mentions. I can't attest to all examples but I know what a UI is.

Author mentions center of focus of attention. We should hear more often about the periphery of our attention field. Its bandwidth so to speak is a magnitude lower compared to the center but it's still there and can guide some decisions quite unintrusively to flow.

(Major) eye movements are a detriment to attention, which itself should be treated like a commodity (in case of a UI thousands use, moreso like a borrowed commodity).

It's classics all the way down.

Seems like 'he' came out without damage, too :)

Can you elaborate what app (?) you use on your phone?

Is there anything to be said about accessibility? Found the word only once in the comments.

Is this relevant?

https://typst.app/blog/2025/automated-generation

"Chi va piano, va sano e va lontano."

Walk slowly and you'll walk safe and far.

In my opinion author fails to make distinction between small tasks (atomic tasks) and complicated tasks. Also misses to mention 2 important concepts: flow state and friction.

For small tasks you should absolutely strive to remove any friction (examples: editor undo, dictionary lookup, make a note).

Complicated tasks (writing a blog post) are a different beast: - needs to be broken down in small tasks - while carving out small tasks needs finesse and fluency - small tasks need to be frictionless

But, principal difference is you need to load your working memory (small but fast (RAM)) (e.g. read documentation, browse a repo, connect to your work from yesterday, ...). Loading your 'RAM' is an investment. And your ROI shrinks if you need to collect the threads from scratch again and again. So, IMO it's not about moving fast but moving uninterrupted. Moving uninterrupted produces flow state and gives you the impression of moving fast (despite your moving only slowly but steadily). Speed becomes irrelevant if you're moving steadily forward.

The blog post shows another problem if your working 'too long' on something: you need to reconnect from scratch to your original idea/intention, which might change. So your creation may become an incoherent medley, you begin to miss the forest for the trees, or worse: you begin to doubt yourself.

I like to think about the mind as an extensible limb that can extend in the direction of a distant goal, but can only span small distances. It's literally like the mind walking. Making steps too big is like moving trying not to touch the floor. It needs unreasonably more effort and is long-term exhausting. You may even break down and think you're a failure. But standing on one leg for too long is exhausting too.

You may laugh about the author who had this post 6 years in the making, but it's extremely important to work by a mental model that doesn't exhaust you, but works FOR you.

"I never understand anything until I have written about it." – Horace Walpole

"If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking." – Leslie Lamport

Another reason maybe to profile the pool of talent that probably gets hired by your competition.