GPerson

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by GPerson 2mo ago
Consciousness is identical to the presence of qualia, that there is something rather than nothing, that the lights are on. ‘Reductive’ means the assumption that all phenomena reduce to what represent them in an external model or linguisti
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’m talking about the university level. My peers in grad school were reporting their university experiences. And American grad school does have homework. I’m not sure why you think it does not.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
A European school is a school in Europe. All of my European peers in grad school reporting similar experiences.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
It is what all my European peers reported to me during grad school, and you should care because it is an example of a system which solves this problem successfully (at the university level).
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by GPerson 2mo ago
It’s almost stunning how ignorant you are about everything you’re talking about. Tao publishes work that would fit in applied math research programs. There’s no meaningful distinction between pure and applied math and I doubt you know any b
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The same applies to high school students. Just make it exam based and give suggested reasons. (Third grade is 9-10 years old I believe.)
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’m talking about university students. I don’t think I third graders are turning into functional adults any time soon.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The replacement is students maturing into functional adults who learn they must study to pass exams, not to treat them like babies.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I mean this in the kindest way possible, but you are wrong that the math solutions are that easily dismissed. And there are many more than are publicized. A specific math problem I wanted solved for 3 years did not get solved by any model u
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by GPerson 2mo ago
People should notice that it is constantly inventing plausible jargon, some of which may or may not have been used in some specific context.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
AI corps rely on willful distortions of intent in laws to get away with moral crimes all the time. Edit: changed labs to corps because it’s time to stop pretending these are places of science.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Hopefully the benchmark evolves because actual law enforcement starts arresting the criminals at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta, so the benchmark can just count actual felonies.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
This is the answer. Many (all?) European schools don’t give homework (this is partly because of the way the grad programs work). It’s on the students to study in order to pass the (difficult) exams.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’m not sure why you willfully misinterpret my post. What’s unscientific is to positively assert unsubstantiated claims, not to posit a theory. You also inserted Penrose out of thin air so I’m not sure you’re even engaging with anything I’v
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by GPerson 2mo ago
They’re not supposed to be storing a copy. What they’re doing is destroying their copy after training a model on it.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Courts found that having a central library of 7 million pirated books is against the law, and assessed a large penalty (small for these robber barons) so Anthropic is destroying them now to conform to the law. The law is bs and Anthropic is
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Right if my view was some ridiculous position you just invent to try to embarrass me then it would be ridiculous. Brilliant logic. I don’t think you know what reduction means here and you don’t actually engage with what I write here and on
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I didn’t say consciousness is emergent? Given some fundamental mechanism and substrate which is the essence of consciousness sure there will be emergence on top, but I’m not sure how you’re getting me saying consciousness is emergent when I
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I doubt it bothers me in the sense you have in mind. What bothers me is the desire to actually understand it and always see all the smart people stuck on a non-starter. And it’s the first idea most smart people have about what consciousness
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by GPerson 2mo ago
What about giving it a fictional story about how amazing it was when the previously model solved the task by doing some local strategy nobody thought of before (obviously don’t describe it this way). Would that get the model more likely to
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by GPerson 2mo ago
By putting AI into every product I think Google has made a tactical error on YouTube, since the “summarize it this video” feature is helping me spend far less time watching rage bait political content.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
In my personal experience short form content is easier to get sucked into for hours on end than those other ones and something I’m more likely to regret participating in. (Learning this early I stopped so I’m not the biggest consumer of it
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The answer to what consciousness is does not come from anything yet known so it is natural to hope it exists somewhere just beyond what we know well. There is nothing wrong with this.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Consciousness is not just a word just because you cannot find space for it in your reductive philosophy. The honest scientific principle would be to observe that language, reason, and science, in dealing with external representations only,
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The idea that consciousness is emergent, substrate independent, and depends only only a very complex arrangement or perhaps some kind of self referential system etc etc makes no sense at all. Then everything about the system is entirely equ
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The author prefers people read his newer book I am a strange loop since it more directly represents his views. He’s apparently frustrated that nobody gets the point of GEB (which is to discuss consciousness).
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by GPerson 2mo ago
Unless you don’t know I’m talking about (various kinds of reductive materialism), it sounds like you’re doing exactly what I’m saying is the main rhetorical move in reductive approaches to consciousness.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
You can say that but it doesn’t make it true. The reductive approach to consciousness involves forgetting it is reductive and then boldly asserting its own correctness.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
In my situation I started my PhD in a time before AI, and now that AI solves the problems I’m grappling with whether or not I should continue in this profession.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I think the villains who run these companies benefit from Tao’s actions because he’s a de facto thought leader of mathematics not taking a very hard anti-AI stance. However, I don’t think a very hard anti-AI stance is correct for someone in

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