f_of_t_

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by f_of_t_ 11mo ago
Maybe the reason it sounds like ChatGPT wrote it — is because we’ve all started replying like machines, and the only thing left that still feels human is noticing that fact.
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by f_of_t_ 11mo ago
Appreciate the link — I read that paper. But maybe the real gap isn’t about capability spread across domains, it’s about something growing internally, not performed externally. A system becomes closer to AGI not when it matches human tests,
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by f_of_t_ 11mo ago
Beautifully said — that’s the real paradox, isn’t it? The closer we get to simulating awareness, the harder it becomes to notice our own. Maybe the Imitation Game was never about machines fooling us, but about showing how easily we forget w
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by f_of_t_ 11mo ago
I like how you framed that — the “summary of oneself” idea aligns with how awareness might be less about computation and more about internal coherence. Binary systems simulate state transitions, but awareness seems to emerge from continuous
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by f_of_t_ 11mo ago
The point is — neither of us can prove it, and that’s exactly why “consciousness” keeps escaping any formal definition. Once something tries to prove awareness, it’s already reflecting — which is awareness itself.
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Scientists can't define consciousness, yet we think AI will have it
17 points by f_of_t_ 11mo ago|24 comments
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by f_of_t_ 1y ago
The point isn’t that humans are perfectly free — it’s that we occasionally notice when something is moving us from the outside, and can choose to resist it. That meta-awareness of being moved is already a different class than optimization u
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by f_of_t_ 1y ago
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by f_of_t_ 1y ago
Just an idea that’s been looping in my head lately — curious how others see it.
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What if light doesn't follow the universe – what if the universe follows light?
2 points by f_of_t_ 1y ago|1 comments
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by f_of_t_ 1y ago
Funny how jokes land right where awareness begins.
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by f_of_t_ 1y ago
Maybe that’s what makes it interesting — awareness itself doesn’t need meaning to grow.
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by f_of_t_ 1y ago
Maybe the first spark of awareness was hunger — but what made it awareness was realizing hunger could be watched.
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Ask HN: What If AGI = Awareness Grown Internally?
2 points by f_of_t_ 1y ago|7 comments