eberkund · HackerTrans

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I think it's a little more complicated than that. In a 50 First Dates type of scenario, their ability to form certain types of memories is damaged, not non-existent. And I would argue that with enough brain damage someone like an extreme lobotomy victim may stop being considered conscious.

eberkund

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I'm more interested in what a virtual body would entail. To me the root of this idea is around persistent state which is something that currently LLMs do not have. Imagine if somehow your brain lacked long-term memory forming capabilities and instead each day when you woke up you had to read a notebook with (markdown formatted) instructions that you wrote the day before? I wouldn't be surprised if such a person lacked in many of the dimensions we consider important for consciousness, even in less sophisticated forms of life like dogs or mice.

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Something I've found under discussed when it comes to artificial consciousness is how LLMs interact with the passage of time. I don't know exactly how to articulate this idea but don't see how something which takes an input, performs a calculation and stops can be considered conscious regardless of how life-like the responses end up being. I don't see context windows or the ability to reference a clock each time they are triggered as sufficient solutions. It makes me wonder what an AI system that is ON by default would look like.

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It's only declaration by fiat if you stop reading at the end of the title. Should authors add a qualifier like in my opinion to every statement that they make?

The essay structure you're criticizing is exactly how I was taught to write from primary school through to university. You start with a title or hook, introduce the topic and propose a thesis. That is followed up upon with supporting arguments for the primary claim.

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What makes you say that? Chinese EVs?

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eberkund

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Back when they first introduced the Touchbar they offered MBPs in both configurations and the price difference was $400 for the same model with and w/o the Touchbar.

eberkund

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And that's on top of the amount you are already paying for the base 16GB, so in reality it is $800+the cost of the 16GB

eberkund

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Command prompt on Windows is pretty fast but Git Bash is still unusably slow. I guess I'll try again next major release.

eberkund

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It's not really a worst case scenario when you consider where the majority of Intel's revenue comes from: selling their high margin server chips for use in data centers, a significant portion of which are running some kind of database.

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