lkadjal

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by lkadjal 3y ago
I think the issue here is, you probably can't apply the same logic to consciousness. It's the medium through which we understand, comprehend and chip away things. It's the medium in which the world appears. It's the medi
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by lkadjal 3y ago
> What is consciousness? The firing of a gazillion synapses you will never fully understand. Hmm. How do you know this is the case if you don't understand it? Magical thinking?
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by lkadjal 3y ago
Just build something useful. Your users don't care. Even PHP is good enough if you know what to build. If you don't, focus on pointless things like Bun vs Node vs Deno, get some dopamine hits and fool yourself into thinking you ar
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by lkadjal 3y ago
> Why would anyone want to help Apple build a platform that they will then use to undercut you? Awesome. I will build some apps and make the 30% then. Even if it's short term it's still a lot of money. Thanks.
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by lkadjal 3y ago
> Be audacious. Most people who are talented or smart are scared of doing things. I’m not sure why that is, but it’s more often than not the case. Because they are book smart. As in raised in right conditions and sent to the right school
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by lkadjal 3y ago
Obviously there is no you. Just the experience. I thought that was pretty obvious.
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by lkadjal 3y ago
> There is also zero "evidence", by this extremely restrictive standard of "evidence", for existence of any consciousness aside one's own. Yes. That is correct. > This rhetorical strategy thus has a weakness:
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by lkadjal 3y ago
> In this light consciousness also makes more sense to me, although consciousness feels more like a by-product, our (human) ability to hold an internal model of the world in our minds and interact with it, is pretty advanced. You can gen
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by lkadjal 3y ago
We are not anywhere close to creating a conscious AI. An AI without humanity is completely pointless unless it is capable of building a conscious AI which I doubt it is.