Biological consciousness is a representation of what it is like to perceive, a perception of perception. It constructs a coherent real time model of the present, by stabilizing an observer that creates a model of world and self in the mind.
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Machine Consciousness: Testing Organism-Based Hypothesis Through Computing
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The machine consciousness hypothesis has two parts: a conjecture about consciousness in organisms, and its validation by translation into a testable computer model.
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AI as Final Step in Naturalizing Mind as Mathematics
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Artificial Intelligence might be the last step in a 2000 year intellectual project: the naturalization of the mind as a dynamic mathematical object. This is the essence of the machine consciousness hypothesis.
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Chinese Robotics Technology Security Concerns and Geopolitical Implications
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Today, I have tried to convince a proud European TED speaker that her wonderfully capable, presentable and affordable Unitree robots might contain backdoors, and relying on Chinese technology is no replacement for developing robotics capabilities of our own
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Comparing Amjad Masad Among AI Researchers Engineers
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On a scale of 1 to 10, where would you say that Amjad Masad comes down, when compared to all other AI researchers and engineers you ever worked with?
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Why Less Rigor in Spiritual Beliefs Than Science?
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Many people feel that it's ok to be less rigorous about their religious/spiritual/ethical beliefs than about other matters (such as science, finance of history). Why would you give less importance and accuracy to the core of your agency than to peripheral details?
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Stealth Account Deletion Restrictions Raise Fairness Concerns
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Afaik the official reasoning was that non-stealth accounts could use this to produce stealth images (by generating the job, downloading and then deleting), but I don't see why stealth accounts cannot delete. I think this is unfair to users
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Job Numbers Index Content Despite Discord Hiding Methods
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you can hide the content without discord, and hide it even more with discord, but the job number still indexes it afaik
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Economic and Political Liberalism Drive Innovation and Human Emancipation
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Economic liberalism is not an end in itself, it is instrumental to efficient production and innovation of goods and services. Political liberalism (freedom of speech and association, freedom from unjustified authority) is crucial for human emancipation, which is the liberal ideal
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Freedom, Liberal Democracy and Technology: Defending Open Discourse
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Our most important problem is that most people in Western societies have forgotten what it means to be unfree, and why freedom and peaceful negotiation of power via free and open discourse are worth defending against illiberal modes of social organization