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Imagine two different types of universe.
In the first, all things feel like something, and this is why they move. When organisms move the "wrong" way, they starve or are eaten, move the "right" way they have offspring and survive.
Over generations, evolution finds more complex ways of moving that survive. These movements are caused by more complex feelings - a stronger sense of smell and touch, of hunger, or being able to see clearer shapes and so on.
This is how minds can evolve in a universe that's fundamentally made of sensation-driven choice. In that sort of universe, when control organs like brains evolve, they naturally evolve to have minds. In that sort of universe, the "laws of physics" are just observations of what matter feels like doing on average, under certain situations - they aren't commandments by the creator.
Now let's imagine a second universe - one where things strictly follow rules made by a creator.
In this one, actions are caused by rules - feelings have no effect. Brains evolve without a reason to feel anything at all. Having no way to align "how it feels" with "what it does", this universe does not have a biological selection pressure to build the likes of human consciousness.
Software exists in the second type of universe - a rule-following system. People believe that we do too, but because we have consciousness they're provably wrong; if we lived in a rule-following system we'd have no reason to have minds.
So believing in software consciousness is, IMO, evolution denial with extra steps.
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it was fun while it lasted
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The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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What about a pure POSIX alternative to GitHub Pages?
We'd need awk alternatives to Markdown, YAML and Liquid, because sh is too slow, and a static site generator that pipes them all together as the Lord intended.
LET'S GO!
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davidsong retweeted
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We’ve released the official Blender add-on for ZOZO’s Contact Solver, our open-source physics solver developed at ZOZO, Inc. Blender users, please take a look!
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I finished implementing every version of RAR in Rust with Codex and Claude, and documented my journey.
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