flitter
1yr ago
Might be falling into a history average familiarity trap. I don't people are going to be naming even second-rate pharaohs
flitter
1yr ago
That makes sense, direct editing is going to cause a lot of indirect problems. Similar to immune system or dietary supplements.
flitter
1yr ago
minimizing how many instructions you need to add to the genome in order to make something happen
This is the mechanism for why the body isn't fully optimized: it has to be backwards compatible and build iteratively off of previous DNA. That tech debt is exactly what an artificial engineered brain/body could re-design.
flitter
1yr ago
Watts used to hold those positions more strongly. I think he has updated his opinions more recently in Nov 2022. His blog has some posts about consciousness and survival
https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10307
What they’ve got, as it turns out, is a nifty little proof-of-principle in support of the Free-Energy-Minimization model I was chewing over last April. Back then it was Mark Solms, forcing me to rethink my assertion that consciousness could be decoupled from the survival instinct. The essence of Solms’ argument is that feelings are a metric of need, you don’t have needs unless you have an agenda (i.e., survival), and you can’t feel feelings without being subjectively aware of them (i.e., conscious). I wasn’t fully convinced, but I was shaken free of certain suppositions I’d encrusted around myself over a couple of decades. If Solms was right, I realized, consciousness wasn’t independent of survival drives; it was a manifestation of them.
https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10225
Only now—now, as it turns out, maybe sentience implies survival after all. Maybe I’ve had my head up my ass all these years.
I’m not sure I buy it. Then again, I’m not writing it off, either.
flitter
1yr ago
Why does selecting text near the top of the screen scroll up in this UI?
Find a big post like https://www.themotte.org/post/216/meta-something-shiny-and-two-things, scroll down a bit, and then try to select a sentence within an inch of the screen-top.
flitter
1yr ago
Interesting, I find the consistent tree structure more intuitive than the sibling only branching screenshot. Props to customization
flitter
1yr ago
Firefox mobile can install adblock addons & play videos in the background.
Can't do the skipping-sponsored-content afaik
flitter
1yr ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/eabgr3/even_space_marines_need_artillery_support_why_i/
Warhammer 40k, StarWars, Fascism, Equality. Even Spacemarines need artillery support.
flitter
1yr ago
A major goal of this forum is to avoid the kind of incendiary language used here. Speak plainly. Don't attempt to build consensus about whether Vaush sucks, give an argument instead.
What led you to predict that "bread tube" would be anti-AI? Do you find their position hypocritical? Anti-progress?
The Hock will fix everything
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