skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If consciousness is simply an emergent property of sufficiently complex information modelling, than assuming continued increases in computational capability, we're probably on the brink of creating consciousness that is "more conscious" than ourselves. And by our own definition of import, this consciousness will exceed our own place in the universe.

You went from 'consciousness exists on a gradient' (makes sense) to 'consciousness exists due to information modelling' which is a non sequitur.

Consciousness could be due to information modelling.

It could also be due to our brain's reliance on dopamine.

Or maybe it's due to a heretofore unknown enzyme that taps into a quantum field.

Or any other explanation.

There is no way to prove that consciousness relies on information modelling. That's a major assumption.
Sure, let’s assume that’s a problem. The wording is not great, I don’t like it, let’s get rid of it. I’m still not sure how that requires re-writing the whole thing?

I also wonder - if you’re so opposed to slavery, what do you think about https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studie... ? You did call them the good guys.

EDIT: it’s not even zero in Finland! https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/map/#mode=map:...
Is that what the kids grew up to call it?
Swarming Proxima Centauri: Picospacecraft Swarms over Interstellar Distances
Tech pump & dump in a nutshell --> find trend/exciting tech, make it user friendly/tailor it to niche, sell.

It adds value -- OpenAI isn't going to bother making special AI chatbots for car dealerships or whatever. These companies aren't going to hire coders since that's not their main line of businesses. So someone has to come in and middleman.

Maybe calling it a pump & dump is unfair, but there's no denying that the core technology is not in the hands of these startups. These small companies get decimated once the big companies see enough $ in their niche (which is what happened in the early days of the net, too). Fortunes will be made and lost. It's the American dream.
I understand not to expect a high IQ from users on this site when it comes to topics outside their areas of expertise, but your comment wins the cake. The truth is that a microwave is the safest form of cooking or heating, especially in the presence of water. In contrast, air fryers and toasters achieve a much higher temperature, which makes food harmful to eat due to the creation of toxins such as AGEs and PAHs, etc.
> Landlords likely won’t iterate through each and every similar site to search for reviews. At least not all of them.

It only takes one. And if it’s been automated, you’ve just made it plain text but with extra steps.
How exactly do you go from dandelions and clover vs. a golf course lawn, to swarms of wasps, a feral (as in domesticated then reintroduced?) wolf, water parasites and living in a mud hut?
> Americans aren't going to tend the fields, either.

Why not? Europeans do it. They also have native born people working construction, etc. This idea that it’s somehow beneath Americans to do that work is all in our heads. One of our neighbors is a young, native born woman who works as a nanny. One of our neighbors is a native born American who cleans houses. You can have a self-contained, sustainable economy where native born people sell each other goods and services. It doesn’t need to be a pyramid scheme that relies on a continual flow of cheap immigrant labor.

And you’re right—the service jobs are being automated and outsourced. You know what won’t be automated and outsourced? Replacing roofs. Digging fiber trenches. Installing heat pumps. Remodeling bathrooms. If Americans won’t do that stuff, they don’t have jobs.
I want to open a side thread about your definitions or descriptions of what "consciousness" is. I think that could be pretty interesting after reading all the comments, and I think there's a lot of knowledge hidden here that we could throw together.

Some things that I understood, in my words:

- consciousness is probably not reducible to smaller, non-conscious parts of which it is composed. You could maybe say it is intrinsically holistic

- consciousness entails being aware of or observing qualities that hard science tells us the things don't have (green vs. length of lightwave); but "being aware of" or "observing" are so closely related to consciousness, that it may not be very informative

- consciousness can't be detected from the outside for now, and probably by the structure of the process. It is "inner" in a very peculiar sense (everything else is outer, and can't get in, except as representation)
"It was never possible to configure your own DNS server in any B-Box ... because of certain laws that require DNS resolvers to forward to fccu-stop.services.belgium.be in case a domain is blocked by the government."

Thank god for DNS-over-HTTPS
This is the most anti-science attitude I think I've seen in a very long time. It's also foolish and dangerous IMHO, because it greatly contributes to the very thing you want to prevent: amplification and creation of quack science to the gen pop.

Simply depriving these people of airtime does NOT quash their views and make them go away. It fuels conspiracy theories such as about how big pharma is censoring ideas about natural (or already highly-available) treatments in order to make billions on devoloping their vaccines and using government levers to force people to buy them. (They did try to do that too, though they got lucky in that none of the "natural" treatments seemed to really work. But had they worked, their reaction would have been the same.)

It also means the discussions people see are going to happen on shows/forums/podcasts where the host doesn't push back on them and offer challenges and critical thinking. This not only sets a terrible example for people by demonstrating through social proof that one should accept these things uncritically, but it makes it appear as though the case is very strong and there isn't a good counter-argument! This double effect makes a strong impression on people in the exact opposite way that we want.

I think Joe Rogan has done more to bring sanity to these things than most people. Have you ever watched those episodes? He is very conversational but if there is ever a claim that doesn't seem supported, he will ask Jamie (his assistant or producer or whatever) look it up, and they are highly skeptical and choosy of sources.

We should know by now that censoring information these days does not work. We're no longer living in the society where the average person only gets information from TV or books available at their library or local book store. If there's a quack theory out there, it will get to people through the internet. The answer is not to shut down the internet. We need to expose these ideas and defeat them using logical and scientific refutation, and we need to encourage and teach critical thinking skills. This is a new world we are living in, and the tried and true techniques or censoring and book burning do not work anymore. Embrace it and use it.
During the pandemic on the day we went, we were two of 20 visitors to the Alhambra in Granada, what spectacular luck we had to have a kings view of the place.
> Plus, if the magnets fail while the fusion reaction is happening, then the superheated plasma will violently explode in all directions, killing anyone nearby, and spreading the radioactive remnants of the vessel all around.

No. Just...no. This is entirely wrong. The density of any proposed fusion plasma is 250,000 times less then the earth's atmosphere[1]. Fusion plasma would be crushed the surrounding air rushing in, not "explode".

Fusion plasma's are incredibly light, and incredibly thin. In the event of a full magnet quench, the only significant damage would be from magnetic quench boil off of coolant...which is a designed for failure mode, and would vent either liquid nitrogen (in HTS designs) or liquid helium in LTS designs like ITER.

[1] https://www.ipp.mpg.de/15144/zuendbedingungen
> You're confusing the entity doing the sharing...

Yeah, you're right. I fixed my comment to clarify my point, thanks.

> Also, to reiterate, Google has its own fulltext, license-free corpus of books, which...

Loopholes doesn't invalidate/override morals. I find training of any model with a corpus without consent from their respective authors immoral, regardless of laws around it.

Same for code, images, sound, text, whatever. These systems can leak their training data, or recreate them verbatim with the correct prompts. Furthermore, "claimed clean" datasets like "The Stack" are not clean by any means because the dataset is huge and tools are not good enough. Plus, even if the licenses allow this, there's still morality/consent aspect to it.

BTW, Fair Use explicitly defines the use should be non-profit. If you profit from the resulting model, it's no fair use by definition.

Any large artistic work which can be reproduced by these systems should be ingested with consent, period.

To be clear, I use none of the AI systems available on the market today.
To paraphrase another tale; you can clerk for the supreme court for decades, but if you read just one book about sexy fun times with that cute goat from the hot yoga class . . .
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> "Those human brains are just synapses firing. They depend on nature to survive. Not a problem"

When it comes to AI we have just a lone detached brain, not in control over anything, so that it cannot even "fire" by itself: someone has to provide its inputs.

> Suppose we create a server emulation of a highly intelligent, manipulative serial killer <...> How do you feel about this?

Quite indifferent: the only field I can see for such a simulation is game development, but that would be huge overkill.
I wonder if she also did a Google search for the same genre and if this is why she was retargeted.
Knocking the trackers off is a real issue, however, a great non-digital solution to that is the wooden laser-cut boards with physical notches for the cube slots - e.g. https://github.com/cophus/terraforming-mars-board and the many other options if you google or search etsy.
Op writes "I’m writing this comment so that people who want to know more about alternative theories of consciousness (to materialism/physicalism [1]) can know where to go to find well-argued positions on the topic."

They very specifically state that these people are good points of entry for "well-argued positions on the topic." Linking to specific literature would have been better, but this isn't "materialism/physicalism is wrong because of these people's credentials."
Temporal AA and the Quest for the Holy Trail
This would be a lot more interesting of an article if we could tell what this mysterious genre is.... I'm guessing they don't like their taste being called out as predictable.
Not exactly the same thing, but there is a very nice ML framework for .Net called ML.Net.
Fun fact, Uru aka Myst Online is still alive. They have added new ages to it, even quite recently.

https://mystonline.com/en/
Sure, if that had been done from the originating device. There are photo file formats under discussion today that do this. The existing ones do not.

After the fact, it's been a hard problem since what's rendered can be visually corrupted while the format remains valid.

So the problem becomes to detect whether it's visually off, at scale.
The authors suggest incorporating elements of neuroscience into machine learning models. I don't see why the bitter lesson [1] doesn't apply here.

1. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...
Most US states require 2-4 years of math credits for graduation. Typically that means algebra and geometry. Schools may offer trigonometry, calculus, probability and statistics, but those classes would attract students already motivated and inclined to study mathematics.

The OP asked about motivating students in high school math (country not specified) by teaching the math underlying LLMs. That assumes LLMs or "AI" look more interesting or relevant to high school students than the math they learn now. But they would still need a good grounding in algebra at minimum, and the average high school student in America barely gets through that, and with little motivation to continue studying math. So I don't think dangling LLMs in front of them will spark more interest.
ROFL you are saying that kitty the program that finally broke the keyboard logjam with terminals of preventing you from having nice things!! Good luck to you.

And lets apply some common sense to your common sense, follow up on it a little. If a modifier is defined by the fact that it modifies the actions of other keys, then left and right modifer keys modify the action in exactly the same way and thus are the same modifier. Common sense indeed.

And if you want to reference windows, a platform kitty does not support, here you go:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nseventmodi...

no left and right modifier state on macOS. And neither does X11/Wayland have them, though I dont have a link handy, so I will just leave you with a couple of links to the documentation for cross platform toolkits instead:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qt.html#KeyboardModifier-enum
https://www.glfw.org/docs/latest/group__mods.html

And in case the common sense didnt make it past your mental barriers, a terminal keyboard protocol has to work on all platforms not just windows.
The good lord alone knows what windows does, probably synthesizes that state based on press and release events.
That's not really correct. default mode network activity is somewhat disrupted, but LSD works primarily by interaction with the 5-HT2A receptor subtype, this is multiple neurotransmitter systems, including serotonin, dopamine, and glutamate, and in many examples it's via excitement not inhibition/lowering/disabling. Excitatory neurotransmission in glutamate is looking like the the most important of the work in the 5-HT2A area.
This is the result of the last decade or so where SAAS has become very lucrative and barrier to entry is almost nil with some many tools to quickly build something. AI is just more fuel on that existing fire. Everyone and their mothers are building a "SAAS" these days. Interesting, now I see all these gurus either selling courses on starting SAAS or selling "boilerplates".

AI is great but this is a side effect of it. It's the new Bitcoin/Blockchain gold rush (is that fad over yet). Everyone wants a piece of it and it will continue to bring out the hustlers to make quick money.

Like you said, not all are useless and there is obviously a market right now. So people are cashing in until it lasts.
Your NIMBYism sounds like the typical response to diversity, bio or otherwise. Try replacing "nature" with some other terms; it's not a flattering statement.
“The equation must be balanced!”
Depending on the language, this is definitely preferable!
The hardware could be used for other things I think 1 4080 card tiers also 2 1080 cards equivalent. I wound bet they rent out capacity for other stuff during the day too.

I would also be surprised if they were only 5-1 on users still it’s probably not their most profitable venture.
I assumed IP address tracking was easy? I seem to often get ads relevant to people who share my home WiFi network.
Human consciousness has logically to be a product of the physical structure of human beings.
It's not an eink tablet, it's a reflective LCD (rLCD).

source: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Daylight-Tablet-promises-first...
A huge part of the failure here is misunderstanding the budget of the target audience. The author genuinely thought that photographers have hundreds of dollars of cash hanging around to spend on this SaaS tool, even after meeting a customer who explained that they weren't willing to pay for this.

How many hours would this tool save per day? One at most? Even generously valuing the customer's time, the ability to recoup the cost of the subscription at $500/mo is essentially impossible for everyone except a tiny fraction of a percent of potential customers—and I'd suspect those folks don't know they would want or care about the tool.

The author was—at every step—more concerned with making a profit than solving a problem. You'll simply never build a compelling product (and turn a profit) if you don't even know who the people who are supposed to buy the product are.
Guess how many people in europe don't even speak:
Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish or Swedish... or even Esperanto!
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the main ebooks sources

- bought/library borrowed books with DRM removed and shared

- scanned & OCRed books from archive.org & related projects

- non-DRM bough & shared books
https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studie...

Gives 3.3 people per thousand in slavery. If the people there were good human beings should it not be zero? They have had much longer time to fix this, but have done absolutely nothing clearly. So they must be the bad guys, don't you agree? At least we can agree that they are comparatively worse guys. As they have had much longer to fight against slavery but have not done it.
I m the one who got downvoted. I honestly was trying to help but I can see why my tone seemed a bit rude.
Compare that to:

Ingredients: BEAUTIFUL PEANUTS
Not an eink tablet, it's an rLCD tablet, so it's more like how it is different from the upcoming TCL's NextPaper 3 devices.

NextPaper 3 is still a full color LCD panel that you switch between modes tho.
Micro Channel was the IBM choice that forked universes. I guess our PCI universe is okay.
Isn’t ReLU an element of neuroscience that was incorporated into machine learning to great success?
Also on Android if you're not an Apple
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Your criteria also omits the U

Good point. Personally I think an experiment that omits the U would still be a reasonable test to see whether people would continue to work.
Honestly, this looks like a horrible way to create software. The money and effort spent on the waitlist could have been spent on a minimally viable project instead.
Spam, junk slop? The latest wave of AI behind the 'zombie internet'
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Rediscovering the Small Web (2020)
The most elaborate deployed version of this idea is probably PyPy, an alternative Python implementation that works by giving a JIT-compiling partial evaluator a hint-annotated Python interpreter as the program, and the Python code to be executed as its input. Slightly abstruse overview here: https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/architecture.html
This is my experience, 4-6ms. Even over the internet on a different continent I can game from my home PC with negligible latency with Moonlight.
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326329
The sites she visited are likely using Google Analytics. Not much of a conspiracy imo.
SaaS Subscriptions have gotten out of control. I do not need to pay you X per month to use software that I was able to purchase ONE TIME.
BOOX already beat them to the punch also.
> none of which are generally accepted

It's not "none", though. A paramedic will absolutely know exactly what they mean when they're performing a test for consciousness, it's just that test isn't useful in this context.

"Awareness of internal and external existence" is another, and I think Claude 3 demonstrates behaviour which fits this meaning of the term.

Qualia is a huge open question because nobody knows what that one would mean or imply or how to test for it.

And so on.
Never in my life have I signed up on a waitlist. And nobody else I know ever has. I have enough spam in my inbox, why actively invite more?
I agree, but it’s also strangely appropriate, because Scrabble is far less interesting a game than it first seems, as the author points out.
You don't. But it's solipsism to think otherwise, and while solipsism is hard to argue against logically it's not a very interesting or useful way of navigating the world we experience. We can't prove other people aren't p-zombies but the value bet is definitely that, appearing like us in every other way, they also experience like us.
This is why you fuse He3-He3, no neutron emissions/everything is charged, much easier to contain.

The problem is getting it hot enough.
Good point indeed
In general, no .. the point remains that there exist high school math students that would be motivated to read further given a brief overview of how LLM's work.

Eg: at least one fellow high school student I studied calculus with now teaches machine learning and other math as a professor in a Canadian university.
Am I the only one a bit weirded out by a headline that's basically "X said Y" where Y is in quotes, but it turns out that X is not a well-defined entity, and Y wasn't actually said by anybody? Regardless of the content of the article, it just doesn't seem like a good look. And I donate to the EFF! It's just... weird to me.
Perhaps the topic is not Scrabble, as you assume, but actually the internal voice of an addict who has transferred their addiction to anagramming and other word thoughts.

I could see how others would feel they can relate to that.
Could it be that America has 335 million people living there versus Sweden's 10.4 million ?

It's almost like population density changes how many deaths per year happen! Maybe there's a statistical tool that normalizes the population scale between the two so you can compare like for like.
> Or in cases of Aphasia where individuals can sing lyrics without consciously understanding the meaning of the words.

Hah, well maybe I have aphasia then. My whole life I've heard and even remembered lyrics while a singing along with the radio but if you asked me immediately after the song was over I couldn't tell you the words or the meaning.

I hear the music being played and the sounds of the lyrics, but unless I'm trying to pay attention to the words I just completely miss them.
This is just a variant of “both sides” argument. Both sides are not equal. There will be conspiracy theorists and quacks always, no matter what you do. It’s when you give them a microphone and any semblance of legitimacy that it becomes dangerous. Case in point: Alex Jones. The correct thing is to dismiss these people outright. It’s already been demonstrated that if you try to have a public discourse on this kind of stuff that bad actors will just come in and sow misinformation. Attempting to have such discourse merely elevates the legitimacy of the quack’s claims, since you can have the most detailed of detailed takedowns but be countered with literal word salad nonsense and still “lose” in the eyes of gen pop. The quack has everything to gain, because by getting into a discussion with someone legitimately qualified in a public arena they are placed on somewhat equal levels with that person in the eyes of the public. A standing in society they absolutely do not deserve.

By the way, Rogan himself has a few entries on Quackwatch for promoting questionable supplements that he has a financial interest in. So he’s not, as you imply and he would love to have you believe “just asking questions”. He is actively engaged in the same bullshit his quack guests come on and peddle.
People always think that the heart of a big machine will be some massive block of dense metal. The heart of these machines is, for failure mode purposes, an empty void. Be more afraid of the associated refrigeration plant. That is the bit more likely to explode.
Your statement isn't really about biodiversity, unless your solution to all potentially problem species is "eliminate them". Everything you mention is solved by building appropriately, building well and maintenance. Water drainage, grading and envelope solves the vast majority of the problems you mention and the far more common & mundane ones, and the irony is that a bio-diverse yard handles the dynamic changes far better than a perfectly manicured lawn.