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Cube Flipper
Cube Flipper
As a human being, the kindest thing you can do to your brain is to not think.
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May 22
finally got to explain my old DMT “hypercomputation” project/proof-of-concept to David Pearce today, an attempt to devise a visual stimulus whose 3D interpretation would demonstrate discretised computation on top of the continuous domain visual field
May 11
Amazing article on AI consciousness. Most takes on this topic are incredibly weak, but this nails it on the head.
As I am a panpsychist, I do not think the key issue is whether digital minds are “conscious” or not. Rather, it’s that we cannot be certain that the subjective experience which they may be having is like what we imagine it to be like – and that there is a lot of empirical work which needs to be done in order to establish confidence in any proposed mapping from a given system to the qualia which may inhabit it.
May 9
If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level
May 2
Seven, plus or minus two
Apr 7
new post today, the first of two posts, in which i visited the Anima Labs (animalabs.ai headquarters to interview Antra, Imago, and Janus about language model phenomenology.
Feb 24
new blog post today, on the type of phenomenological phase shift sometimes labelled/categorised 'stream entry', and its implications for the relationship between cognition and consciousness. The post includes first hand reports of such transitions along with detailed descriptions of the changes to phenomenology: