GPerson

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by GPerson 2mo ago
Reducing it further into parts does not and I believe cannot explain why there is qualia. Denying qualia is just proudly ignoring reality. There is absolutely no reason to believe all aspects of reality are reducible to their parts and equi
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by GPerson 2mo ago
It will still be baffling that there is consciousness. Maybe if you start messing with parts of my brain so I can become familiar with the third person correlates of consciousness (which in my usage refers entirely to the first person part)
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Then we agree. You don’t have empirical evidence that I am conscious.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
“Much of today’s discourse on AI consciousness rests not on empirical evidence but on functionalism …” In my view there can never be an empirical test for consciousness, because functionalism is wrong. If functionalism was right then there
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’m not sure how to reply to your comment since it is almost entirely addressed to some imaginary person and is full of projection. I’ll just add that both parties serve capital.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I just use debit cards and Venmo for everything. I’ve never understood why I’d use a credit card when I can just use the debit card and pay no fee. I’ll never afford a house anyways so the credit score argument is meaningless to me.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
“Most people have had the experience of wanting to buy something unplanned and not having the cash on them, but buying it anyway via credit card.” I believe you, but this experience is totally alien to me and I don’t know of anybody who has
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by GPerson 2mo ago
No it’s not. Election denialism in 2026 in an American context refers to Donald Trump and his supporters denying the results of the 2020 election (and related claims). Pretending that capital does not significantly affect our elections cont
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by GPerson 2mo ago
“Sounds great, except it ignores the fact that capital interests have controlled the levers of our faux democracies for decades, with no end in sight.” This is not election denialism. This is almost just a fact except they also subjectively
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by GPerson 2mo ago
How does the moral imperative of industriousness deal with all the skilled jobs being done by the computer?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
You don’t get to 25 or 30 trillion total addressable market by providing AI for the people who like AI. The whole plan is to replace all white collar work with AI. This requires more data centers. The people who benefit the most from this w
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Are people here really surprised that the techno-capitalist aggregator people would make an account on Elon’s website?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Sees obvious capitalist revolution unfolding in society. Ha! Look as these useless non-acting larpers!
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by GPerson 2mo ago
You don’t think Anthropic belongs on that list? They’re working as hard as possible to plunder most of human creation and disturb all human life so that they can enrich themselves.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
They’re focused on curing all cancers in 5 years. Curing claude code is beneath them.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The world consists of independent actors, at different scales, and lots of entropy. Any model like yours giving all the agency to 50 protagonists is a silly oversimplification.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’m assuming you’re a software engineer. The AI programming meta that keeps evolving (last month it was loops) seems like a relatively trivial skill to adopt compared to learning what it’s like to do high quality work and to participate in
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by GPerson 2mo ago
A few weeks ago a guy came up to me at a coffee shop to ask if I wanted to develop his big AI idea that he’s getting patented soon. Obviously I didn’t want to but during the conversation he spent a lot of time telling me that his big thing
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Me too. I’m failing to connect the dots from your post to mine though.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I don’t think there’s a big societal problem here, except that the agentic programming developers may be out of a job like the rest of us. If AI continues improving it will just keep taking over whatever skills are involved in the current A
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I also do this. It would be better I think to generate exact references to primary and canonical sources to avoid learning LLMisms, or to feed it these and have it ensure its material is anchored to those good references.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Fable is still on the $100 plan for me. (Maybe this is A/B testing or something.)
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by GPerson 2mo ago
This really feels like something out of Orwell with some millennial era lingo tossed in.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
It’s good to know Ted Kaczynski’s thinking is as lazy as every internet shit poster.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
It looks to me like the world’s top mathematician and I are perfectly aligned and you have no clue what you are talking about on any topic mentioned.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The meta has changed in 6 months so the university is investing millions of dollars to design a new 101 course: Hit approve all day on the agent which should be taking your job any time soon.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
That’s why I said it will be used more for bad than good. Maybe I should have said, “it will be used for far more bad than good for the purpose of human intellectual flourishing”. It can be used for good for this purpose. You can use it to
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Right. And?
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Becoming a good developer was nowhere in the curriculum at the CS program I attended, unfortunately. It still had some interesting topics. I think the profession evolved too quickly for an academic curriculum to cover anything relevant. Now
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Right I was not clear enough about separating my opinion from the findings.

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