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xcode42

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    Comment #41799002

    By the way, you can replace the fandom in the url with breezewiki and get a much more pleasant experience without ads. it's not that much of a difference on desktop, and the layout…

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    Comment #39863663

    I mean, you are their parent, if you believe that your kids don't have enough work to do, give them more work to do? why would that need to be handled through homework? the purpose…

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    Comment #39863542

    > (Many, but not all) Animals do in fact have consciousness, emotions, and dreams(the kind that happens during sleep that is). It's not just human projection. Maybe we are defining…

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    Comment #39615197

    I don't think the argument is to not care how society works at all. But if people are caring so much that it's making them act in irrational and harmful(both to themselves and othe…

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    Comment #39130522

    I would love nothing more than to not be special, the only solutions that I can conceive of for the hard problem of conscience are ones that requires something other than the physi…

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    Comment #39103092

    Good luck. I've given up trying to explain qualia to people, and why they are at the core of why conscience matters. It's so frustrating. Once I heard it for the first time it seem…

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    Comment #38694552

    Regarding the first one, it's actually a surprisingly difficult problem. Sure we can try right now but deep learning systems currently have a lot of issues with continuous learning…

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    Comment #38643796

    Ai is having explosive growth and the hype around it and research is definitely at a high. You could say we are in a "bullish market" when it comes to AI R&D ;). Assuming that this…

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    Comment #38643649

    Thank you for the paper, this seems awesome, I'll have a look later. Deepmind pretty consistently comes up with interesting ai research results, so this should be pretty neat at th…

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    Comment #38640642

    why do you assume that the brain is quantum? it seems very obviously not? on stuff the size of neurons quantum effects are already negligible at anything except near 0K temperature…

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    Comment #38640543

    While I find this story a fun and intelligent allegory for the issue of ASIs and a fun thought experiment, I find all the doomsaying around ai safety research kind of tiring. AI sa…

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    Comment #38639509

    While I agree that ChatGPT is surprisingly impressive, I think you might be underestimating what's still missing. For starters, what you describe as "the spontaneous eruption of a …