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tt54l32v t1_j98d6df wrote

Reply to How to definitely know if a system is conscious: by FusionRocketsPlease

We assume the brain creates consciousness. What if it's consciousness that creates the brain? Biology already gives us the ability to create a new consciousness sheet by reproducing.

I watched ex machina again last night, the programming is not the far fetched part anymore, the hardware is.

Consciousness is no longer the hard problem anymore in my mind. It's moving an uniformed, unemphatic civilization to alignment. This post proves it.

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gosu_link0 t1_j98ae0y wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What’s up with DeepMind? by BobbyWOWO

Except Deepmind and Demis were the ones to invent the technology behind chatGPT and made it available for free for others like openAI to copy.

Literally the opposite of "keeping it for himself"

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WolfgangBob t1_j98aao2 wrote

Reply to comment by overturf600 in Hey guys, a couple of questions to see where your heads at! by TheChalaK-

Interesting opportunity to chat with execs about AI. What is this opportunity/event? It's something you get paid to do?

I'm super curious about the ideas that would get generated.

What I'm most interested right now is to be able to use GPT to finetune it with my emails and other writings so that it knows my style and then this means I have a really awesome personal assistant - extended brain for all kinds of writing tasks.

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uishax t1_j98a46e wrote

Reply to comment by Redditing-Dutchman in What’s up with DeepMind? by BobbyWOWO

It sounds extremely dumb to fire your AI engineers at the beginning of 2023, when its plainly obvious the AI tsunami is about to hit. They have been employed for a decade now, when AI produced no economic returns, so no point laying off them now.

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WithoutReason1729 t1_j988akt wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in "Starlink is far crazier than most people realize. Feels almost inevitable when I look at this" by maxtility

It's inevitable but I still don't like it and I don't think I ever will, honestly.

Also I don't believe it will be fully controlled by the end user. We've been heading in the direction of less and less control over our own electronics for a long time now and I don't see why that trend would stop, given that it's clearly more profitable and most people don't mind giving up the control. Especially given that you can't just get rid of your own brain implant in the same way that you can install a new OS on a computer or toss it in the trash if you really hate it.

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AllEndsAreAnds t1_j987lsg wrote

Reply to How to definitely know if a system is conscious: by FusionRocketsPlease

Given humanity’s absolutely abysmal record of correctly perceiving other beings’ intelligence and consciousness, we should err on the side of caution: assume consciousness, and work towards evidence of non-consciousness.

Innocent until proven guilty, but for consciousness, since one would have us apply moral consideration to beings undeservingly, while the other has us denying it in beings that are deserving - a far worse outcome much in line with our history on this planet.

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WithoutReason1729 t1_j985wtp wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in "Starlink is far crazier than most people realize. Feels almost inevitable when I look at this" by maxtility

Yeah, but not being able to avoid interfacing with the tech, even if I'm not forced at gunpoint to get it, I still find that unpalatable. If he wasn't the one behind it, I'd still dislike it exactly as much.

I feel the same way about the rise of smart phones and about the sudden popularity of cloud-enabled front door security cameras. Even without participating, there's a you-shaped hole missing from the surveillance state and you're implicitly tracked through that.

As for how external devices are less invasive, they're less invasive because I can disable them, walk away from them, turn them off. Something stuck inside my head and directly interfacing with my brain is way more invasive.

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