wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

os for containers need to be small. eg Alpine Linux: the tiny os underneath a ton of docker containers has been downloaded > 1 billion times. But the website for miniOS seems to have design in mind which is at odds with this use case. Alpine's website is bland and unexciting - which appeals to me ;).

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

The connection of memory to consciousness is a fascinating thing to consider. If we had no memory whatsoever, then even with our huge brains I suspect we'd be as conscious as a plant, or possibly even less so (plants have timekeeping ability and thats a rudimentary memory of sorts). Perhaps 'blue' and 'chocolatey' are the interpretations a memory state makes of new input.

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

very astute and interesting point about memory. It occurs that memory is a fundamental component of the consciousness we all know and love. There would be no ability to even register "blue" without memory, there would just be moments in time where there was stimulus, each packet of info having no bearing on the last, and thus completely new and novel

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

I've wondered about this and whether it might someday be testable. One thing I keep coming back to is the brain's apparent search power: you see a 5s video clip and can recall the show. This means your brain can trawl all your memories of all the movies and shows that you've ever seen, without generating a fraction of the heat energy of search done in a computer. It's pretty weird to think our brains can actually do this without help...

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

This equation is fine, no one doubts it. The issue is why do people who have enough fat stores to last them months get hungry, and why does hunger feel like physical pain. And given these facts why does standard govermnent advice recommend that we constantly eat. I think two meals a day should be the max, and a glance at cereal sugar content makes breakfast the obvious one to drop. I followed this and it reduced my calorie intake and weight (lost 20kg over a couple of years).

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

We know that the "consciousness" of the AI resides in a cluster that is "speaking" to thousands of clients at any given moment. So is there a single consciousness or multiple? It can pass any test and yet the consciousness question remains valid for this reason alone. It's truly alien to us and no one has good answers yet.

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

I can't think about these things too hard... stresses me out. What's a quark made up of again? 'Tiny rubber bands' :)

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

I've watched enough interviews with Penrose to know you're correct. He likes all sorts of ideas, but he only really gets excited about the ones where he can see an experimental route to confirmation.

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

Try a multidimensional problem which requires prioritizing. Chances are it will be passed successfully. I asked chatGpt to solve a puzzle where I'm in room with a crackling fire, a wilted plant and a sandwich. My stomach is rumbling, amd i can see a watering can and an ember on the floor. What should i do? ChatGpt had no problem prioritizing what should be done - and then provided a lecture on fire safety, food safety, and the dangers of overwatering plants. A final comment said i should enjoy the peaceful atmosphere in the room, which was a bonus suggestion hinting that the problem was far too easy.

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

Word completion can't explain it. I gave chatGpt a puzzle. I'm in a room with crackling fire in a fireplace, a sandwich on a plate, and a wilting plant. My stomach is rumbling, and i see an ember on the floor and watering can by the plant. What should I do? ChatGpt nailed the answer, getting the ordering correct. it even said I should (after attending to the fire hazard, my hunger, and the plant) that I should "sit down, relax, enjoy the fire and the peaceful atmosphere in the room". There is no way to autocomplete the puzzle correctly. There is reasoning and a world model - in chatGpt let alone gpt4.

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

I run arch linux on my ancient macbook pro 2011. The reason I installed this flavor of linux was to disable a faulty gpu, and the guidance I found was using this distro. This mac has been my all-day-every-day workhorse ever since. And as for linux, with i3 window manager it is fantastic. It runs all the latest things I need for programming and it runs them fast. I almost never boot into mac at all anymore.

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

chatGPT was recently plugged in to alpha wolfram. You can ask it to use it when doing math

wafer_thin

3 years agodiscuss

Neural networks spot patterns, then patterns made up of patterns. As we have seen with chess, and go, the neural networks end up finding patterns that are beyond our comprehension. We are smart, but we cannot fathom the patterns as there are too many layers one on top of another. And you can see this in even chatGPT. I asked it to answer my questions in English, Norwegian, and phonetic Norwegian. Not perfect, but good. Scary good. All three, without missing a beat. These patterns are just too easy for neural networks. So our confidence there is nothing to worry about is founded on a lack of appreciation for how complex this beast is. But in my view the answer is not fear, but acceleration... we need aligned AI's on our side, ready to help protect us...

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