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IMO consciousness is different from working memory, at least to a certain degree. The inner mind (working memory) is different from consciousness from sensory stimuli. You can stan…

Just some speculation, but, I think humans have on the one hand a lot of degrees of freedom in behaviors and thoughts they can do, but at the same time all that freedom is reigned …

I just want to add that the "recursive" part of recursive self improvement is by no means a given, even if an AI can improve itself. Recursive self improvement is by its nature a s…

Well in that case I'm not sure where you're going. I agree that hamsters probably have a similar consciousness to ours, which is kind of the point I was trying to make. I think tha…

I'm not sure consciousness and self-awareness are the same thing. First is we can be conscious when we sleep/during REM sleep, where it's arguable we are not self-aware. And if not…

Personally I'm not a fan of the emergence story, for a number of reasons. First is, it doesn't really make sense for consciousness to have emerged gradually through natural selecti…

Sorry I messed up how I wrote that. I meant to only remove metadata columns, not all columns.

I find that this happens when you enter folders that have media files like audio files, video files and so on. One way to fix it is to enter one such folder, then remove all column…

I feel like I kind of borked the last paragraph so I want to clarify something. The point is basically that since these repeating patterns are different every time, they are not em…

Sorry for pastebin but it's all I can do atm! Would appreciate your views

Would appreciate your views on this!

Maybe it's looked down upon to complain about downvotes but I have to say I'm a little disappointed that there is a downvote with no accompanying post to explain that vote, especia…

Even though I think it's true that it's lossy, I think there is more going on in an LLM neural net. Namely that when it uses tokens to produce output, you essentially split the tex…

LLMs _can_ think top-to-bottom but only if you make them think about concrete symbol based problems. Like this one: https://chatgpt.com/s/t_692d55a38e2c8191a942ef2689eb4f5a The pro…

That's a good point and I agree. I'm not a neuroscientist but from what I understand the brain has an associative memory so most likely those patterns we create are associatively c…

I think something that's missing from AI is the ability humans have to combine and think about ANY sequence of patterns as much as we want. A simple example is say I think about a …

Yeah interesting I have to think about this.