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How am I dogmatic? There is zero evidence that our minds are anything but physical systems, governed by the dynamics of physics. We are physical systems, that are conscious. Therefore physical systems can be conscious, and perceive, whether they are biological or not; biological has nothing...

yeah, wonderful (NOT). That paper is one of the bedrocks depended upon by people who deny that true AI could ever possibly be intelligent. Which puts them at odds with pretty much every computer scientist and physicist (Roger Penrose excluded. Nobelitis is a bitch). The brain is a physical...

Strange memory: I long ago learned a form of this. I would swim and float under the surface of a pool, and bend my body so that my body above the waist and body below the waist were at different angles, and then rotate that bend in a 360 rotation, and I would spin like a top.

Yes, because now it goes up to 11.

I know I'm getting beat down in the votes but I totally agree with the people that are downvoting me. In fact, I am just clinging to hope. Please let there be a hope. I am trying to imagine futures that aren't as grim as the high probability ones, but whose realization requires us to make...

Yeah that's what they want to try to do. But the point I'm trying to make is that people's fear of getting dementia as they get older becomes a pretty overwhelming worry, much bigger than people's worry about covid. For them to argue against something that will actually prevent dementia, that's...

I think the most effective way to fight this moronic behavior is to zero in on an area where they just can't defend themselves and that's described in another article on Ars at this very moment, which is the very strong evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents dementia. That means everyone...

There are tools for managing persistent guidance like that. You can go to "settings/saved info" to input those, or use Gems. (Gemini)

This is certainly true, but the question is more about whether you should than whether you could. It is famous and cherished, and poorly written. I would really prefer to read AI responses that were not trained on Harry Potter writing style. I'm sure this will enrage Harry Potter heads, but...

The funniest part about this post (which is very funny) is something that isn't there: the missing edit:. Missing text can itself be funny!

There is a question as to how much of this sycophancy was intentionally built in; I think there is an additional effect that might be hard for them to remove which is that it is learning from human conversations on the web and those tend to be sycophantic by nature. People are trying to be...

I will care when Fox is subjected to this too.

They may want to lock-in users. But that depends upon backward compatibility as they evolve ChatGPT. Given that each new version has different strengths and capabilities, that may break previous prompt engineering, I'm not so sure that will be easy to do. I suspect that people actually using...

They better still sell Chromebooks, running Aluminium or not. They better make Aluminium as secure and easy to administer as ChromeOS; that was the whole point. Managing an Android phone is far less secure and easy. Otherwise I'll be out. I want a chromebook to be a secure, simple appliance...

"Brendan", "Brandon", it's all the same. Let's Go Brendan.

You clearly don't understand what is actually happening in reality. Answer me this: if it's only the political appointees that are now doing extreme things, who the fuck were the people that just executed warrants to seize Georgia's 202 election records to further Trump's Big Lie? You think it...

Actually, I want to see what this generates from a screenshot from Wolfenstein 3D or Doom.

Yeah! It's only their bosses that are MAGAheads. Couldn't possibly have any negative effects.

Yeah, I write system code (virtual machines), and the amount of "every design decision depends upon every other design decision" is huge, and is why system programming is much harder than application programming. What I would like to see is a system programmer's evaluation of how this stuff...

Fortunately, unlike with vaccines, no one is getting hurt but Trump cult members. Let it roll! I hope every single Trump voter signs up to get ripped off.