Daniel Kos

A PROMISE. When you write software for #Proxima... - Proxima will never make your work obsolete. - Proxima won't gate-keep how you can distribute and run your own software. Follow me! (I'll need a much bigger audience to make this project viable.)

@elonmusk #1 red flag for phonies in respected positions: They spend all their time complicating things.

So many phonies, so few who are the real deal

@0xrinx @zacbowden Even Microsoft did it in 1995.

@zacbowden Movable taskbar? No forced updates? Faster search? Bro, Linux did this in 2005.

BREAKING: Microsoft just announced several major changes to Windows 11 in an effort to win back user trust and evolve the platform into something people will actually want to use over macOS and Linux! It's a huge announcement that addresses Windows 11's biggest problems today, tackling core fundamental issues such as unreliable system performance, UX consistency, AI bloat and general enshittification. Microsoft has confirmed that this year, it WILL be reducing where ads and Copilot appear throughout the system, including in Start, Widgets, Notepad, Photos, and more! File Explorer and Windows Search will be upgraded with improved performance and capabilities that make finding apps and files much faster and easier. The OS will become lighter with less RAM and system utilization at idle, making it smoother to run on low end hardware with limited memory. These improvements will also benefit high-end PCs too. Windows Update will be improved with more granular controls and the ability to postpone updates for longer, along with reducing how often the OS needs to restart to install an update. Microsoft has also confirmed that it's bringing back fan favourite features such as the ability to move the Taskbar! It's also working to update more areas of the system shell with modern WinUI designs, which should make Windows 11 feel more coherent and complete. There's much more in the announcement, and it honestly all sounds too good to be true. Microsoft really is listening to feedback, and is eager to make Windows the BEST desktop OS on the market. More details including when these changes will arrive in the link! windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind…

@Polymarket Why does that need a server?

BREAKING: Cyberattack against American breathalyzer test company locks out drivers across 45 states.

@nalinrajput23 What do you mean no docs?

No docs, no YouTube, so how did coding even get learned?

@KettlebellDan @brockpierson One review of Windows 1 said it "ran like a crippled duck."

@brockpierson I didn’t even know there was a Windows 1

What was the first version of Windows you ever used?

@WindowsLatest Stevie Wonder should be next CEO of Microsoft.

BREAKING: Microsoft could drop the requirement for a Microsoft account to use Windows 11. This move is being explored internally as part of the company’s efforts to win back Windows 11 users. A future Windows 11 update will also make the OOBE (out-of-box-experience) UX "quieter and more streamlined," with fewer pages and reboots, so getting started is simpler. Microsoft has committed to faster OS performance, a reduced memory footprint, a faster File Explorer, fewer web-based UI elements in the OS, and even the ability to pause updates for as long as you want. Microsoft is also scaling back Copilot in Windows 11, and it will only add AI to places and apps where it adds real value.

Microsoft's "latest" new feature in Microsoft edge.

How do we know we can't change the past? Like maybe we do it all the time. How would we even remember?

I like drunk physics Claude a lot.

I got Claude drunk.

In the mid 19th century, Hungarian scientist Ignaz Semmelweis discovered there were improved survival rates for patients if doctors WASHED THEIR HANDS first. Did doctors listen? Not in a good way... The medical establishment condemned his insulting suggestion, experts said there was no plausible scientific link between hand washing and patient health, he was fired from his position, he was driven to mental breakdown. He was put in an asylum. He was treated by a doctor. He died of an infection. (That doctor hadn't washed his hands.)

Normies don't understand how boiling water works. It's like a magic science thing to them. It's like if they saw a hammer being used to fix a table once they would post "hitting things with hammers fixes stuff."

That's only true for chemical contaminants that have a lower boiling point than the liquid you want to keep. High school science. If you boil water with lead or arsenic in it then the contaminants get MORE concentrated because the water boils off first. Boiling can be very useful but, no, liquids don't have magic inside them to know which parts humans want to keep when they boil them.

@TheGameFreek @Sparkpoodle1 Boiling things removes most contaminants in liquids.

I can not understand what the big deal is with pasteurization? It's literally just heating milk for a set time then rapidly cooling it No chemicals, no high tech equipment, it's just heated milk

@_trish_xD Third party libraries are great for code that will never need to run on other people's machines or your own machine in a few years' time.

i used to roll my eyes whenever senior devs said "just use the standard library." i was wrong. they were right. so much third-party stuff is genuinely unnecessary.

It's hard to say in general. I would say perhaps not. But in terms of his argument, I got the impression he was using the weight of his own authority groups (his startup company and his philosophical tradition - whether it ultimately leads to his conclusion or not) to do all the heavy lifting in appealing to people to join his consensus that it's not conscious.

@dwkos @Codeforged_One @sandeepnailwal Is the groupthink that AI is or is not conscious, in your opinion?

LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness. That it feels things, that we should worry about it going rogue. And i think this whole conversation tells us way more about ourselves than it does about AI. These models are wild, i won't pretend otherwise. But feeling human and actually having inner experience are completely different things and we're confusing the two because our brains literally can't help it. We evolved to see minds everywhere and now that wiring is misfiring on language models. I grew up in a philosophical tradition that has thought about consciousness longer than almost any other, and this is the part that really frustrates me about the current conversation. The entire framing of "does AI have consciousness?" assumes consciousness is something you build up to by adding more layers of complexity. In Vedantic philosophy it's the opposite. You don't build toward consciousness. Consciousness is already there, more fundamental than matter or energy. Everything else, including computation, is downstream of it. When someone tells me AI is "waking up" because it generated a paragraph that felt real, what they're telling me is how thin our understanding of consciousness has gotten. We've reduced a question humans have wrestled with for thousands of years to "did the output sound like it had feelings?" It's math that has gotten really good at predicting what a conscious being would say and do next. Calling that consciousness cheapens something that Vedantic, Buddhist, Greek and Sufi thinkers spent millennia actually sitting with. We didn't build something that thinks. We built a mirror and right now a lot of very smart people are mistaking the reflection for something looking back.

Even in modern PCs, I wouldn't mind a proxy service that simply delivers a version of the web with the clutter removed.

@Codeforged_One @sandeepnailwal The trouble I had with his argument was it was one long appeal to not question the groupthink.

Your tradition is not a baseline for a concrete definition of consciousness. It is at best only your subjective opinion. Consequently, it leaves you with no foundation to definitively state whether AI is conscious or not. And Anthropic, an industry leader had already done enough research to show that Claude has an internal state. And to complicate things further, our version of whatever we perceive consciousness to be, may be totally different for AI. It is hubris and arrogant in the extreme to believe that we are the only species that has consciousness, and our consciousness is the only version of consciousness that exists.

The correct interpretation is not necessarily that consciousness is "something you build up to" implementing in matter although complexity does play a role. If you think of the universe itself as an information system, the emerging conclusion is that consciousness (including observer frames etc) is an inherent non-material property of reality itself, which is simply more concentrated and therefore more visible in very complex systems. Why is it more visible in very complex systems? Because to maintain a complete information state containing a very complex system in a way that keeps reality coherent, a lot of extra "compute" is required by the universe itself. We only mistook this "god in the machine" property for a "human" trait because our brains were the most complex thing we'd been able to observe it happening in until now.

What the insides of old fluro light starters look like. The clear glass tubes have blackened inside.

@MrSnakeOil @gtinari I don't know. Psychopathy? TBH I guess it's no good trying to find a classification that fits perfectly; the people who came up with these terms to classify people with might have had been case studies in some of them themselves.

Ah yes, that’s a good characterisation. There does seem to be an extreme type where the person in question disregards others to such a degree that it can be argued that they believe they are the only ones that exist, and that the rest of us are simply means. Only character syndrome?

it’s insane to me how many people in the tech community can’t wrap their minds around the macbook neo. what is such an enigma about it? it’s a $600 laptop from apple made for people who do some typing, do some streaming, do some researching, and do some socializing.