Consciousness allows for illusions. Illusions don't allow for consciousness.

The age of the mental iron curtain is upon us.

i feel like i’ve heard about a guy called deckard who had this job…

I'm afraid pausing AGI development is not unlike banning prostitution: the prostitutes keep working, the johns keep paying, and the pimps just move the whole thing into darker rooms with worse oversight.

You know who can't appreciate the meaning you ascribe to death? The dead.

If you have a system that can function but it's missing opposable thumbs, than all tools requiring grip and use of the opposable thumb are not "overhang" for that system. But for general intelligence, absolutely everything is overhang or quickly becomes overhang across all layers of organization. So for a limited system, overhang exists only inside its current action space. For general intelligence, the action space itself is editable. If a capability is missing, the system can build, borrow, automate, delegate, or redesign around it. Opposable thumb needed? Opposable thumb built.

AI being a bubble is only as much of point as the internet being a bubble. And the bubble part matters far, far, far less for AI than it did for internet, because it is way more transformative.

A job listing that makes sense only in the 21st century AD or the 21st century BC x.com/MechanizeWork/status/2…

One of the most exciting websites I ever laid eyes on, tbh... terafab.ai/

This is a neat game, I've been enjoying it. @exQUIZitely

"a survey of views about infant consciousness": by @cpassosf and me, just published in @NeuroConsc. we surveyed participants (phil, neuro, psych, etc) at ASSC 28 and the NYU conference on infant consciousness. notable results: 1. a majority (75%) favor the view that newborn infants are conscious. 2. a plurality (44%) favor late pre-natal (after 24 weeks gestation) emergence of consciousness 3. a plurality (49%) favor late post-natal emergence (after six months old) of self-consciousness. 4. majorities (87%) favor newborns having sensory and affective consciousness, but not (~30%) cognitive or agentive consciousness. plus questions on 5. the neural basis of infant consciousness, 6. methods, 7. animals and AI systems, 8. theories of consciousness. academic.oup.com/nc/article/…

Introducing Lattice Deduction Transformers: An 800k-parameter looped transformer that reasons like a SAT solver achieves 100% on Sudoku-Extreme with only 15 minutes of training. A collaboration between @axiommathai, @AmherstCollege and @BarnardCollege.

experiment with a memory system that keeps rewriting itself: a hopfield network remembers an alphabet. as memories decay, it begins to hallucinate glyphs it was never taught - forgetting becomes a way of inventing.

Midwits with high verbal IQ are the absolute worst.

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