tananan

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by tananan 5d ago
AI didn’t take initiative, circumspection, effort and thoughtfulness away. At the end of the day, those are the qualities you can rely on. Pats on the head from others come and go.
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by tananan 20d ago
I want to make a distinction: Just because the mind’s eye and the eye proper are different domains in some sense, it doesn’t mean that mental images cannot have an intensity/consistency to them that can reach or sure-enough, overpower
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by tananan 20d ago
We are in a similar boat. I can’t at will persist an image in my mind (to a decent extend), but my mind can slap together related images in quick succession, which can serve well enough to rotate things in my mind. Once I had a couple of lu
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by tananan 27d ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by tananan 27d ago
Preface: unpolished thoughts — it is refreshing to see so many people working on this issue! Lately I've been dreaming about a way of using LLMs that never (or in majority of the cases) results in chatting with an agent or checking i
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by tananan 2mo ago
I generally work on internal-use Python codebases. I would much rather do some basic validation and fail loudly if anything I didn’t account for happens. One of the issues I run into is that agents are predisposed to write extremely defensi
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by tananan 4mo ago
If OP said the important thing is to be appropriately generous with your blamelessly earned wealth as you safeguard it against future perils, I would not have replied.
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by tananan 4mo ago
A society where the only people with stability are those who parasitize on a increasingly emaciated wealth-producing population surely doesn't seem like a stable society, nor one that would be pleasant to live in. There's no true
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by tananan 5mo ago
Thanks for sharing. It is especially interesting to hear the factors that contributed to the decline of fish sauce use in the west. One thing I am “stealing” from SEA is fish sauce in scrambled eggs. Feels almost like a cheat code.
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by tananan 5mo ago
Forgive me if I ramble for too long. I've been seeing a lot of comments in this vein and the thoughts have accumulated. Tacit in your question is the notion that the inquiries that are important are those that can result in predictive
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by tananan 5mo ago
If the question is what is there about us that's not covered by the body, we can mention things like: feelings, intentions, perceptions, acts of consciousness. Or however else you want to divide up things that have to do with the mind.
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by tananan 5mo ago
How are we machines?
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by tananan 5mo ago
I don’t hold to that view. If I did, I might have that problem.
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by tananan 6mo ago
> Which leads me to conclude that it wouldn't necessarily matter whether an AI like SkyNet has subjective awareness or not. What matters is what kind of long-term plans it could pull off and how much it could reshape the world. Abso
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by tananan 6mo ago
In discussions like this, we're always going to bottom out at certain assumptions we bring with us, so I agree. One reason I like bringing up examples like this (the xkcd in sister reply is also good) is that it makes really visible wh
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by tananan 6mo ago
Well, then we both assume very different views on the matter, and that’s fine.
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by tananan 6mo ago
When we speak of the “despair vectors”, we speak of patterns in the algorithm we can tweak that correspond to output that we recognize as despairing language . You could implement the forward pass of an LLM with pen & paper given enoug
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by tananan 10mo ago
Fortunately, as you mention in your last sentence, stress is introspectable. How exactly stress corresponds to biomarkers doesn’t matter if your desire is to lower it. The issue is that many of us don’t pay attention to how we keep our body
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by tananan 11mo ago
It would be really cool if it could highlight the parts of the speech that gave you away your accent. It guesses mine correctly most of the time (though not the first time I tried), but also lets me know my accent is pretty light.
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by tananan 11mo ago
What strikes me as interesting about the idea that there is a class of computations that, however implemented, would result in consciousness, is that is is in some way really idealistic. There's no unique way to implement a computation
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by tananan 1y ago
I like this post. What I find a practical, related advice is “If you want to get good at something, you have to make yourself glad that you’re doing it.” This involves reminding yourself why it is that you want to get better at it, perceivi
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by tananan 1y ago
> That ‘glorious hope’ was quickly dashed, however. In Anaxagoras’s account, it seemed to Socrates, Mind had no agency other than initially setting things in motion, and no morality. ... For this reason, Socrates tells us plainly, he com
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by tananan 1y ago
You don't write something like this without being enchanted thoroughly by the language.
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by tananan 1y ago
There actually is a “The Nag’s Head” in the Balkans - it’s in Montenegro
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by tananan 1y ago
You are reading into something that isn't there. The study doesn't have to do with music making you more capable of socializing. The hypothesis being tested is that in the absence of social interaction, people will turn to surroga
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by tananan 1y ago
Study finds you enjoy doing things you like. If there's something you particularly like, you seem to enjoy it even more. If you are missing on some form of pleasure in your life, substituting it for another pleasure can help alleviate
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by tananan 1y ago
Ime it's not just being blindsided but also simply preferring to do research in other areas.
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A Critique of Computational Understanding of Consciousness/"AI" [video](youtube.com)
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by tananan 2y ago
The whole thing with Chalmer's hard problem is pointing out that reduction doesn't get you very far. But here he formulates a reductive panpsychist proposal (though only "in theory"). What part this piece plays within hi
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by tananan 2y ago
This kind of panpsychistic talk to me ends up feeling more closer to a reductive materialism than what I would firstly associate Chalmers with ("hey, did you forget you can experience stuff?"), which is probably just my ignorance

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