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This made me think of a much more interesting project. A compendium of information automatically extracted from research articles. Essentially one totalizing meta analysis. E.g. If…

Please expand on that a bit

It doesn't take mental gymnastics to understand nuance and complexity

And yet that doesn't mean that all extra associations and cognitions that occur on psychedelics are apophenic.

I don't think they need to justify themselves morally....

Hyperassociativity is not necessarily apophenia. Apophenia is finding meaningful patterns in random noise, but it is not clear that the patterns being discovered were in random noi…

Bing chat is programmed to never be rude, but also to respond in the same tone that it was spoken to. And so, if it tries to mirror a negative tone, it will instead respond with th…

If the book is actually good, then what is interesting about it is that it would still be about something that humans find important and relevant, due to the LLM being trained on h…

Is changing our definition of happiness enough to achieve it?

1. Start by writing down everything you know about what you want to write about in a disorganized way. 2. Read the disorganized text and figure out which information goes together,…

Not at all. The caution about attributing human concepts to other animals is that they can have an arbitrarily different brain organization in such a way that stretches those notio…

If it makes them better than other people at reading things up close, such a person could thrive in an environment that demands that. Of course, they should also be able to wear gl…

The big leap is that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe.

Cameras don't see colors, a wall or a texture on that wall. Cameras merely capture a grid of values. All color perception, object recognition and figure segmentation happens in the…

There is an even greater opportunity cost while you're not trying anything. Even if you don't end up liking the thing you're trying, at least your life has more breadth and depth t…