Emergent Consciousness of Complex Systems:
I saw a tweet saying corporations have emergent consciousness, a self-awareness of, for instance, "I am Microsoft."
If that sounds silly to you, realize it's the same argument that technologists use to say AI can be conscious. Whereas AI is just silicon chips.
Although I guess atheists say we are just neurons...
TLDR: Saying an AI system or a robot is conscious is like saying a corporation is conscious and thinks of itself as a corporation.
I saw a tweet saying corporations have emergent consciousness, a self-awareness of, for instance, "I am Microsoft."
If that sounds silly to you, realize it's the same argument that technologists use to say AI can be conscious. Whereas AI is just silicon chips.
Although I guess atheists say we are just neurons...
TLDR: Saying an AI system or a robot is conscious is like saying a corporation is conscious and thinks of itself as a corporation.
Of course if you're smart and you think about the future, you're going to see disaster looming - it's the most obvious thing to predict.
But to see the black swan events which make the future better than yesterday - those are harder to predict.
Thus smart people end up doomers.
But to see the black swan events which make the future better than yesterday - those are harder to predict.
Thus smart people end up doomers.
In terms of evolution, does an increase in pattern recognition ability (what IQ aims to measure) bring us closer to God?
When a new mathematical proof emerges, it always seems more like a discovery than a human invention...
When a new mathematical proof emerges, it always seems more like a discovery than a human invention...
Natural Selection has selected the species with the best pattern recognition as the apex predator.
The courage to stick with what you believe should work versus the courage to adapt and face reality of what's not working.
Knowledge is always a destructive process that self-perpetuates as needed. That's why knowledge that someone died spreads the fastest - people inform others immediately, sensing a conduit-like need to share that knowledge to not let loved ones live in ignorance that someone died.
Knowledge is like sanding down a sphere of glass until a clearer reflection of reality shines back.
It has marginal returns after a certain resolution, but more knowledge will always make the orb slightly more spherical and thus reflect a slightly more accurate image of reality.
It has marginal returns after a certain resolution, but more knowledge will always make the orb slightly more spherical and thus reflect a slightly more accurate image of reality.
Awakening, spiritually, is like when actors break the 4th wall in tv, a character speaking directly to the audience saying they know the audience is watching. Most think awakening is like behind the scenes interviews with the actors. No, it's the CHARACTERS aware of the audience.
In reality there are real winners and real losers, things don't always work out as you think they should - violence gets shit done, and a more powerful person can utterly demolish a virtuous person who truly deserved to win.
The good guys sometimes lose.
The good guys sometimes lose.
New religions being engineered before our very eyes.
How, you ask?
Symbols and rituals and worship.
Some even make spiritual claims, for some added flavor.
How, you ask?
Symbols and rituals and worship.
Some even make spiritual claims, for some added flavor.
Robots Have No Feelings
Statements that AI make such as "emotions are reactions to our feelings" are coherent sentences, and makes us think the AI understands the experience, but is something that can be regurgitated from psychology articles.
The AI has no internal experience the way we humans do.
The AI is trained to say the most coherent sentence it can based on the prompt.
It's trained to mix and match words that will be an appropriate response to the prompt.
None of that suggests the AI feels.
The argument that atheists make is, "well aren't humans doing the same thing!?"
The difference is we have "qualia" - we have an internal rendering of reality in our heads. We have some physical feelings of the world.
An AI just mixes and matches words.
Curious what you think?
Statements that AI make such as "emotions are reactions to our feelings" are coherent sentences, and makes us think the AI understands the experience, but is something that can be regurgitated from psychology articles.
The AI has no internal experience the way we humans do.
The AI is trained to say the most coherent sentence it can based on the prompt.
It's trained to mix and match words that will be an appropriate response to the prompt.
None of that suggests the AI feels.
The argument that atheists make is, "well aren't humans doing the same thing!?"
The difference is we have "qualia" - we have an internal rendering of reality in our heads. We have some physical feelings of the world.
An AI just mixes and matches words.
Curious what you think?
The hope of a serene life,
Sweet like syrup to the mind;
But evolution demands strife,
For serenity will keep us blind.
Sweet like syrup to the mind;
But evolution demands strife,
For serenity will keep us blind.
The might of a few has risen since 2020 and continues to get louder to the chagrin of the ruling class.
But it seems to be just endless cycles of class warfare thru history:
0. Discontent in the poor class
1. Class warfare
2. Revolution
3. New elites
4. New poor class
5. Goto 0.
Maybe there's a creative way to break the cycle, assuming it's not baked into our DNA.
What's probably a better metaphor is a series of bubbles of increasing complexity bubbling up with progress, and needing to pop and vent and clear way for the new bubbles, while the whole thing looks like a beautiful social symphony from afar...
Either way, when things get too stable, people need to vent their tendencies for violence and always find issues to take issue with.
Then people realize how imbalanced the classes are and start getting antsy.
Surges over, things calm down, and the cycle repeats.
Over and over.
Maybe this time can be different?
Or is that delusional thinking?
But it seems to be just endless cycles of class warfare thru history:
0. Discontent in the poor class
1. Class warfare
2. Revolution
3. New elites
4. New poor class
5. Goto 0.
Maybe there's a creative way to break the cycle, assuming it's not baked into our DNA.
What's probably a better metaphor is a series of bubbles of increasing complexity bubbling up with progress, and needing to pop and vent and clear way for the new bubbles, while the whole thing looks like a beautiful social symphony from afar...
Either way, when things get too stable, people need to vent their tendencies for violence and always find issues to take issue with.
Then people realize how imbalanced the classes are and start getting antsy.
Surges over, things calm down, and the cycle repeats.
Over and over.
Maybe this time can be different?
Or is that delusional thinking?
Why didn’t I take the vaccine?
Because no man or government or propagandist will ever tell me what to do.
To me it was a test of courage, however juvenile and immature that may sound.
Would I have still made the same choice if I didn’t have the support network of social media circa 2021? Yes. The needle wasn’t going in. But connecting with other likeminded individuals during that trying year sure did make it easier.
My MD and PhD friends all shake their head at me disappointed in my decision, as if I got brainwashed by the redneck ignoramuses.
“Muh freedom” is seen as quaint and pityable.
At the end of the day, they can choose to be in my life or not.
I made my choice and never judged anyone else for their choices. Live and let live.
It’s up to them if they want to accept me, and plenty have seen my decision as inspiring.
To each their own. Don’t manipulate me.
Because no man or government or propagandist will ever tell me what to do.
To me it was a test of courage, however juvenile and immature that may sound.
Would I have still made the same choice if I didn’t have the support network of social media circa 2021? Yes. The needle wasn’t going in. But connecting with other likeminded individuals during that trying year sure did make it easier.
My MD and PhD friends all shake their head at me disappointed in my decision, as if I got brainwashed by the redneck ignoramuses.
“Muh freedom” is seen as quaint and pityable.
At the end of the day, they can choose to be in my life or not.
I made my choice and never judged anyone else for their choices. Live and let live.
It’s up to them if they want to accept me, and plenty have seen my decision as inspiring.
To each their own. Don’t manipulate me.
I will have my AI in every hospital in the world. Heed my claim. It’ll happen.
You can optimize multiple distinct components of your personality by a more sophisticated and modern form of journaling.
This is the way:
You start with a digital document. It must be digital for rapid editing.
On each page, write a single paragraph. Write it from the first-person perspective, taking place in the future.
"The day is January 1st, 2030. I wake up and ..."
On each page, write a different paragraph.
Then walk away. A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Then write a new paragraph.
This time, write it from the third person perspective.
"The day is January 1st, 2030, and DeepThrill awakens..."
Then walk away. A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Then add a few images and start editing the paragraphs.
Remember: each page now has 2 paragraphs.
You might have 2,3,4,5,6,7 pages. Whatever feels right.
Then walk away. A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Then pick a page and only edit that one. Let the words you write guide how you edit it.
You want to edit it - not necessarily add to it. Keep it to a page.
Then walk away. A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Edit another page. This page will have a very different voice than last week's page. Notice comparisons between the voices.
Then walk away. A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Now here's the fun part: Have the "characters" from each page start talking to one another on the document.
Allow yourself to edit, remove, update, replace, etc.
Then walk away, A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Now let things fly.
Get drunk, get high, be angry, be sober, whatever.
Break out the pages into their own documents.
Let various voices in the writing go wild.
Repeat this week after week, whenever you're so inclined.
You will start to observe how the various voices in the document(s) represent different sides of your personality.
Let them guide what images to add.
You want it to be digital, not a journal, so you can rapidly edit.
The subcomponents of your personality will start to be optimized and refined, to guide your daily interactions.
You are the orchestrator, the coordinator, the one personality to rule them all in a way.
Let different neural circuits have unique voices.
You'll see what emerges.
https://twitter.com/deeperthrill/status/1273270213325324289?s=46&t=_HTWJINajgPyYIxAfFUxUw
This is the way:
You start with a digital document. It must be digital for rapid editing.
On each page, write a single paragraph. Write it from the first-person perspective, taking place in the future.
"The day is January 1st, 2030. I wake up and ..."
On each page, write a different paragraph.
Then walk away. A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Then write a new paragraph.
This time, write it from the third person perspective.
"The day is January 1st, 2030, and DeepThrill awakens..."
Then walk away. A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Then add a few images and start editing the paragraphs.
Remember: each page now has 2 paragraphs.
You might have 2,3,4,5,6,7 pages. Whatever feels right.
Then walk away. A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Then pick a page and only edit that one. Let the words you write guide how you edit it.
You want to edit it - not necessarily add to it. Keep it to a page.
Then walk away. A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Edit another page. This page will have a very different voice than last week's page. Notice comparisons between the voices.
Then walk away. A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Now here's the fun part: Have the "characters" from each page start talking to one another on the document.
Allow yourself to edit, remove, update, replace, etc.
Then walk away, A week later, return to the document. You'll be in a different headstate.
Read over what you wrote.
Now let things fly.
Get drunk, get high, be angry, be sober, whatever.
Break out the pages into their own documents.
Let various voices in the writing go wild.
Repeat this week after week, whenever you're so inclined.
You will start to observe how the various voices in the document(s) represent different sides of your personality.
Let them guide what images to add.
You want it to be digital, not a journal, so you can rapidly edit.
The subcomponents of your personality will start to be optimized and refined, to guide your daily interactions.
You are the orchestrator, the coordinator, the one personality to rule them all in a way.
Let different neural circuits have unique voices.
You'll see what emerges.
https://twitter.com/deeperthrill/status/1273270213325324289?s=46&t=_HTWJINajgPyYIxAfFUxUw
I’m getting married in one week.
“Remember remember the fifth of November!”
(V for Vendetta reference for those who don’t know).
I asked the internet for some marriage advice and I got 400+ excellent replies from strangers around the globe:
https://twitter.com/deeperthrill/status/1586371238636974080?s=46&t=IYs7TNPtzfaAjiiV-99guA
“Remember remember the fifth of November!”
(V for Vendetta reference for those who don’t know).
I asked the internet for some marriage advice and I got 400+ excellent replies from strangers around the globe:
https://twitter.com/deeperthrill/status/1586371238636974080?s=46&t=IYs7TNPtzfaAjiiV-99guA
Getting married in less than 48 hours!
New chapter in my life with a loving foundation.
New chapter in my life with a loving foundation.
For our wedding, we rented a big yacht that sailed around NYC.
Go big or go home, anon.
Now I start a new loving chapter of my life.
Go big or go home, anon.
Now I start a new loving chapter of my life.