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841.
by layer8 5mo ago
I’m pleased to report that TFA is unrelated to AI.
842.
by layer8 5mo ago
That sounds more like a new feature than a bugfix, however. That aside, I didn’t claim that it would necessarily be more compact, just that it’s possible. Any change can be described in prose, to whatever level is necessary to get the essen
843.
by layer8 5mo ago
You’re not the only one. Good technical writing is like balm for the soul. Or maybe chicken soup for the soul. It presents a clear thought process, leading from confirming a shared context to lucidly teaching you new things while explaining
844.
by layer8 5mo ago
You can still tell them how you did it, just not in the form of code/patches. You should be able to describe it in prose so that the maintainer understands your solution approach.
845.
by layer8 5mo ago
The contents of the terminal screen at any given point in time.
846.
by layer8 5mo ago
Mathematicians use inconsistent notations all the time. Symbols meaning slightly different things based on the type of the arguments are among the benign cases. For the present case, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ve
847.
by layer8 5mo ago
If it optimizes itself away because it’s suboptimal, that wouldn’t be the worst outcome. ;)
848.
by layer8 5mo ago
They probably don’t human-review much anymore.
849.
by layer8 5mo ago
> For each frame our pipeline constructs a scene graph with React then -> layouts elements -> rasterizes them to a 2d screen -> diffs that against the previous screen -> finally uses the diff to generate ANSI sequences to dra
850.
by layer8 5mo ago
In my post the sequence is: 1. Mis-transcode Windows-1252 as ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8. 2. Mis-decode UTF-8 as Windows-1252.
851.
by layer8 5mo ago
It’s home server as a service.
852.
by layer8 5mo ago
I edited my post after verifying the actual bytes, it turned out to be slightly more complicated.
853.
by layer8 5mo ago
The page is declared as ISO 8859-1, but the actual bytes of the text appear to be UTF-8. In UTF-8, characters from U+0080 to U+00AF happen to be encoded as C2 <codepoint value>. For example, U+0092 is encoded as C2 92. C2 in ISO 8859-
854.
by layer8 5mo ago
By definition, internal experience is something you perceive, and what you perceive informs how you act. Therefore internal experience affects outward physical action.
855.
by layer8 5mo ago
I was reacting to the parent post as well, suggesting that they should have used “fundamental” rather than “low-level”, and that “fundamental” would also match the article picture.
856.
by layer8 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_algebra
857.
by layer8 5mo ago
“Fundamental” rather than “low-level”. Which also matches the article picture.
858.
by layer8 5mo ago
Internal experience is an input to your mind (that’s how you know about it), and what your mind perceives affects what it does. The better question is: how can what you experience possibly not affect your actions?
859.
by layer8 5mo ago
We have virtually no idea how consciousness arises in the human brain. Furthermore, what is “natural” supposed mean here, and why should it matter for consciousness whether some prerequisite arises naturally or not?
860.
by layer8 5mo ago
There’s the saying that we overestimate what we can achieve in the short term, but underestimate what we can achieve in the long term. Optimizing for the short term is therefore counterproductive if it impairs us for the long term.
861.
by layer8 5mo ago
It’s nonzero, because they carry state while performing inference, and in the surrounding processes like chain-of-thought and mixture-of-experts.
862.
by layer8 5mo ago
Indeed. For some reason I can shut off my thinking instantly by holding my breath, and then I feel like a very conscious but unthinking animal.
863.
by layer8 5mo ago
Boring feels slower in the moment, but quicker in hindsight. The minute might be a slog, but the years still fly by.
864.
by layer8 5mo ago
> Can there be consciousness without content? E.g. can I just be conscious of being conscious? Being conscious of being conscious means that there is content. You are conscious of something. It’s a bit like a Gödel statement that quote
865.
by layer8 5mo ago
The internal experience has bearing on physical reality right here, because without it you wouldn’t have written about it and caused these words to appear on my screen in physical reality. It affects your thinking, and hence your actions an
866.
by layer8 5mo ago
It lets us consider the relativity of viewpoints. The point of the original isn’t just how humans might be viewed from the perspective of aliens. It’s that the apparent strangeness of something depends on the viewpoint and on expectations.
867.
by layer8 5mo ago
I noticed that jump too, but I also don’t think the interlocutor is supposed to be 100% logical and rational. The aliens in the original weren’t either.
868.
by layer8 5mo ago
I don’t believe you, you may just be an AI bot.
869.
by layer8 5mo ago
An LLM’s training could be seen as lived experience, and the fact that LLMs can output long sequences from their training material can be interpreted as them remembering those parts. Also, how does that relate to consciousness? I don’t thin
870.
by layer8 5mo ago
True, but I don’t see how that relates to consciousness. An LLM being continuously RLHF-trained also changes its habits; that alone doesn’t make it conscious.

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