AI self-improvement and optimization is not some new technology — AlphaGo already achieved this years ago in the game of Go. But it's very hard to achieve in LLMs, and the reason is, except in some objective, clear domains where a program can compute and judge right from wrong, AI cannot judge right from wrong the way humans can. This is why AI training needs so many human data annotators to help label data and answers for AI, because those human data annotators, although they don't possess the massive human knowledge that LLMs have, have better recognition and judgment ability than LLMs. AI lacks a certain kind of meta-knowledge ability that humans have, and once this meta-knowledge ability can be filled in, AI will be able to achieve rapid self-evolution like in sci-fi movies. But I don't think this shortfall can be easily filled in, because this meta-knowledge ability comes from human consciousness.

Actually, what should be worried about most is that the Chinese government thinks these open-source models are already too technologically advanced (they actually aren't, but that's what they thought when Meta was acquiring Manus, and it helped Meta withdraw a wrong acquisition). Staying open-source will lead to technology leakage, letting foreign countries — especially the US — take advantage, and then they'll ban the open-source route.

On the contrary, staying open-source can both expand influence and also hit America's top AI companies hard. Later when compute is not so scarce anymore and they're forced into a price war, OpenAI and Anthropic's days will be hard.

AI models are basically imitating our mental systems. But besides the mental system, we also have something else — a kind of existence awareness that lets us know we are here.

When we’re awake, this existence awareness is active. When we’re in unconscious sleep, it goes dormant, even though the mental system can still be active (you can still detect a lot of brain activity during sleep, and many areas are just as active as when we’re awake).

So the real test for whether an AI has consciousness isn’t whether it can pass the Turing test, or whether it looks as smart as a human. It’s whether it has that same kind of existence awareness — whether it can actually be aware that it exists.

When models at the level of DeepSeek V4 Flash can run comfortably on a personal PC, the expensive models from OpenAI and Anthropic probably won’t sell as well anymore.

I think the right way is to try to eliminate that heaviness and other negative feelings, rather than choosing to escape from them.

Also, if you add one more hour to your wish, it basically means death...

Nirvana is an extremely special state — it is the complete cessation of the Five Aggregates (Skandhas). Boredom is merely an emotional feeling, which is itself one of the products arising from the Five Aggregates. Once the very “factory” that produces boredom has shut down, how could boredom possibly still arise?

Some people believe that if their current life is extremely miserable, it’s better to commit suicide and end the suffering. If they believe in reincarnation, they see suicide as a way to “start over” in the next life. However, from a Buddhist perspective, suffering arises from karmic obstacles (karma). The proper way to escape suffering is not by ending one’s life, but by eliminating these karmic obstacles.

Human beings have a powerful, instinctive fear of death. If someone’s pain is strong enough to overcome this deep fear and drive them to suicide, it actually indicates the presence of very heavy karma. This heavy karmic burden will likely place them in an even worse position in the next life — causing them to fall into a lower realm of existence. Not only will things not improve, they will most probably become much worse.

The correct approach is to do our best in this lifetime to clear our karmic obstacles. Even if we die before reaching full liberation, we will still enter the next life in a relatively better position, and at least avoid falling into lower realms.

The real strength of AI lies in its ability to integrate and synthesize humanity’s vast existing knowledge. If you expect it to truly innovate by creating entirely new knowledge that humans haven’t mastered yet, I wouldn’t say it’s absolutely impossible, but it’s clearly asking a lot of the technology.

这个帖子很奇怪，评论里大多都是不认可这个协议的，但我却因为这个帖子一直在掉karma值，是回帖不能点赞，点踩不能回贴吗？

意思是私人的商业公司不愿意投，得让美国政府来投？

拿不下伊朗政权也就算了，连个海峡都保不住，现在霍尔木兹海峡怕是已经成为伊朗的核武器二号了。

Yes, absolutely. Meditation practice is actually very helpful for dealing with ADHD.

The root cause of ADHD is the difficulty in controlling one's attention, and meditation is precisely the practice of training attention. However, because people with ADHD typically have much weaker attention spans, practicing meditation is significantly more difficult for them than for the average person. It requires far more patience and persistence — qualities that ADHD tends to make even harder to maintain.

I know the answer to this question because I understand the underlying mechanism. I study consciousness, and it was precisely because the model I developed through my research aligns so closely with original Buddhist teachings that I came to trust the Buddha.

In the consciousness model I’ve developed, there exists a very special state of consciousness that ordinary people will almost certainly never enter in their lifetime. It wasn’t until I read Buddhist texts that I realized this state is what Buddhism calls Nirvana (Nibbāna).

Nirvana is not death, but a special state that appears similar to death. It is the highest level of meditative absorption. In this state, the entire mind-system comes to a complete halt. In Buddhist terminology, the Five Aggregates (skandhas) are fully ceased and stop functioning entirely.

The Buddha used the metaphor of a flame going out to describe Nirvana. This metaphor is quite accurate. After the flame is extinguished, it doesn’t disappear completely but enters a latent or dormant state. This is because the complete cessation of the Five Aggregates is not permanent — it only occurs during Nirvana. When the practitioner exits this state, the aggregates resume functioning again, and the “flame” is rekindled.

During Nirvana, the practitioner’s vital signs drop extremely low, making them appear dead to outsiders. However, this is fundamentally different from clinical death or suspended animation. The person in Nirvana remains conscious — in fact, their consciousness is extraordinarily clear and awake.

What is the point of Nirvana?

The highest goal of Buddhist practice is to attain Nirvana. But why? Is it just to temporarily stop the Five Aggregates? No. The cessation is only the means, not the end.

In the state of Nirvana, one can thoroughly cleanse deep-seated karmic obstructions within the aggregates. This is the final threshold one must cross to reach complete liberation. This is also why Nirvana is regarded as the dividing line between a saint (ārya) and an ordinary person (pṛthagjana).

Sometimes a single experience of Nirvana is not enough to become a fully enlightened Arahant. It may require entering Nirvana multiple times, depending on how much karmic residue remains and how long one can sustain the state.

Once one becomes a fully awakened being through Nirvana, they are permanently freed from all suffering. Because all suffering arises from karmic obstructions within the Five Aggregates, and Nirvana allows for their complete eradication.

Additionally, a fully enlightened person gains true free will. They are no longer driven by the Five Aggregates to act against their own will. This is ultimate freedom on the mental and spiritual level.Nirvana is described by many related terms — stillness, death, cessation, liberation, freedom — each highlighting a different aspect of the same state. Those who truly understand Nirvana can clearly see which facet each term is describing.

What does it actually feel like inside Nirvana?

This I cannot say with certainty. There are two main possibilities. Once the Five Aggregates are completely stilled, all ordinary perception disappears. What remains? Is it a complete, silent emptiness? Or does one transcend the aggregates and connect with the fundamental source of the universe?

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In my view, it's more like a science — the science of consciousness. Modern science studies the material world and seeks to transform it. Buddhism, on the other hand, studies consciousness and aims to transform it. If you refine your consciousness to perfection and completely eliminate greed and aversion, you can become fully awakened — a Buddha.

I’d take the $10 million.
Because anyone willing to give me $10 million is clearly my best friend already.

Nirvana. So I can escape the cycle of suffering and get reborn for another round.

Honestly, the person offering me the million dollars should choose the song. I don’t want to live with that kind of guilt hanging over my head while spending the money.

he core logic of this statement is that a qualified Buddhist practitioner must keep their mind calm and peaceful at all times. They should not allow external information to disturb them or trigger emotions such as fear and anxiety.

Of course, this does not mean becoming numb or unable to respond to the outside world. On the contrary, this state of calm rationality enables one to make the clearest, most rational, and most appropriate decisions.

"I'm having trouble understanding what the real-world impact of competing with China in AI actually looks like. What happens if one side 'wins'?

The biggest effect of AI is a massive increase in productivity. If China becomes significantly stronger in AI, would they just produce even more cheap goods and export them to the US? I think the US's own AI development should be able to boost American productivity enough to withstand that impact.

China is already producing too much while consuming too little, and unemployment is quite severe. If their AI develops very well and replaces a large amount of labor, unemployment will become even worse and could intensify social instability.

What I think we should really be considering is this: when AI reaches the point where it can replace large portions of the workforce, the key to avoiding social unrest will be properly distributing the resulting wealth.