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by tjbrennan 7mo ago
I think about this story every time a new model comes out. When ChatGPT first launched, two big questions surfaced: 1. Is it conscious? 2. How do we put it to work? It may have seemed obvious that 1 is false so we could skip straight to 2,
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by tjbrennan 4y ago
Thank you for posting this. It's a very long read so I fear it won't gain much traction, but I think it helped shed light on a malaise that I've felt since adolescence. Therapists and partners have told me I don't practi
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by tjbrennan 4y ago
You're in luck: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/retroSynthwave This plus the macos app Plash makes for a sweet desktop wallpaper.
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by tjbrennan 5y ago
You can click through the citation and read the excerpt. It's an amusing bit of writing about the joys of discovery.
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by tjbrennan 5y ago
$44,000 per hour of flight time really puts things in perspective.
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by tjbrennan 6y ago
I recently learned of Dave Grossman and his police training courses that appear to encourage murder[0]. I'm not sure how prolific his teaching is, but it says a lot about the fearful mindset these officers have. [0] https://
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by tjbrennan 8y ago
I recently lost access to my two factor authenticator. I had saved most but not all of my recovery codes. I was surprised that a couple of websites I didn't have recovery codes for allowed me to disable 2FA after login but before authe
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You and the Atomic Bomb (1945)(orwell.ru)
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by tjbrennan 10y ago
I feel like I'm the only person who uses Caps Lock. When I learned to touch type, I was taught to use the shift key on the side opposite the letter being typed. When typing more than two capital letters in a row, I'd rather hit Ca
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by tjbrennan 10y ago
The thing that consciousness has that is not simply an idea is sensation. At a certain point, it becomes indescribable.
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by tjbrennan 10y ago
I lost some respect for Chalmers when I heard his TED talk that suggested consciousness was a fundamental force. He has some good ideas about consciousness but also a bit too mystical for me to agree with.
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by tjbrennan 11y ago
Even better, +"5" will coerce the string to an integer. I'm ashamed to admit that I've abused it.
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by tjbrennan 11y ago
The scope is the qualia of color and what it is to behold color in your mind. With all due respect, you sound like Mary in the Mary's Room thought experiment. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argumen
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by tjbrennan 12y ago
Iridium flares are a really neat night sky phenomenon to look for. The predictions can be found on satellite tracking sites [1]. I caught one by accident when I noticed a satellite passing overhead on my way to my car one night. Over the ne
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by tjbrennan 12y ago
Many of these quotes have to do with theories of consciousness. Describing consciousness is still a philosophical problem. I wouldn't call this "mysticism," just scientists trying to grapple with the mind-body problem.
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by tjbrennan 12y ago
This sounds like Functionalism to me. Until we can actually map out the complexity being described in the article, consciousness is still a philosophical problem. I appreciate the scientific approach, but I think Tononi's definition of