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os for containers need to be small. eg Alpine Linux: the tiny os underneath a ton of docker containers has been downloaded > 1 billion times. But the website for miniOS seems to ha…

The connection of memory to consciousness is a fascinating thing to consider. If we had no memory whatsoever, then even with our huge brains I suspect we'd be as conscious as a pla…

very astute and interesting point about memory. It occurs that memory is a fundamental component of the consciousness we all know and love. There would be no ability to even regist…

I've wondered about this and whether it might someday be testable. One thing I keep coming back to is the brain's apparent search power: you see a 5s video clip and can recall the …

This equation is fine, no one doubts it. The issue is why do people who have enough fat stores to last them months get hungry, and why does hunger feel like physical pain. And give…

We know that the "consciousness" of the AI resides in a cluster that is "speaking" to thousands of clients at any given moment. So is there a single consciousness or multiple? It c…

I can't think about these things too hard... stresses me out. What's a quark made up of again? 'Tiny rubber bands' :)

I've watched enough interviews with Penrose to know you're correct. He likes all sorts of ideas, but he only really gets excited about the ones where he can see an experimental rou…

Try a multidimensional problem which requires prioritizing. Chances are it will be passed successfully. I asked chatGpt to solve a puzzle where I'm in room with a crackling fire, a…

Word completion can't explain it. I gave chatGpt a puzzle. I'm in a room with crackling fire in a fireplace, a sandwich on a plate, and a wilting plant. My stomach is rumbling, and…

I run arch linux on my ancient macbook pro 2011. The reason I installed this flavor of linux was to disable a faulty gpu, and the guidance I found was using this distro. This mac h…

chatGPT was recently plugged in to alpha wolfram. You can ask it to use it when doing math

Neural networks spot patterns, then patterns made up of patterns. As we have seen with chess, and go, the neural networks end up finding patterns that are beyond our comprehension.…