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vor 14 Tagendiscuss

Interesting, if ultrasound effects the brain, then maybe specific pattern could be used to non-destructively stimulate it?

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vor 20 Tagendiscuss

Oh, the irony of writing an angry post about benefits of anger.

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vor 22 Tagendiscuss

Many open source efforts seem to belong to this category as well.

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vor 22 Tagendiscuss

Some time ago I stumbled onto a bizzare "Peter Thiel on Political Theology" Tyler Cowen episode. Of Course Cowen is on this list.

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vor 23 Tagendiscuss

If this argument was as solid as you say, then all routine checks would be pointless.

I don't know about traditional blood testing, but a permanent implant which checks HR, pressure, glucose, temperature & oxidation would be pretty useful, not necessarily to diagnose anything, but to provide data for doctor when patient has actual symptomps.

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vor 24 Tagendiscuss

Coal margarine, this protein powder and some vitamins, I wonder how long human could survive on such "diet".

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vor 24 Tagendiscuss

Not to mention that you can also ask LLM to summarize any of his books, and get the gist.

Reading an entire book may be more beneficient for habit forming, but most readers probably don't care about this.

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What makes us conscious anyway? As I write this sentence, my brain generates words and contracts specific muscles in my hands to type, but I don't really understand how. I'm just aware that it happens. Apparently I'm no aware of every single neuronal activity, so what I am aware of?

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I agree about definition confusion. I like to define consciousness as "capability to suffer".

Can cow/dog/spider suffer? - very important question, even if not answerable.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Yeah, it's not immediately obvious, but if we created perfect utopia where conditions are ideal, perfectly matched for given individual, heritability would be 0%.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

It's intriguing that some parts of brains are conscious, some are not. What's the difference?

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Sounds right. I wonder why it is so hard to notice in regular everyday consciousness.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

DMN starts when you are doing something trivial and start thinking about something completely unrelated.

It's kinda like falling asleep, except more coherent.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

When I read the title I expected some kind of satire. I wonder if author considered giving the AI a penance.

Maybe if it wrote "I will not delete production database again" a million times, it would prevent such situations in future?

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Cool, maybe we could make CRISPR elves?

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Humans tend to confabulate when asked "why you did X", funny how LLMs are pretty much the same.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

I guess it's a matter of time until TVs include GSM modem for ads and DRM.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

The end game is Zuckerberg sitting alone in his bunker and vibe-ceo'ing all of facebook.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Imagine ideal future, and consider if it's achievable without AI.

Being forced to work is not much different from slavery, I would rather roll the dice than keep the status quo.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

IMO, if we had enough brain scans paired with descriptions of subjective experience, we could create a decent bridge between objective and subjective.

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