I currently think that the esprit de place manifests in the minds of humans as collective selfs that use individual human consciousness to experience themselves, just like other gods
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Self-Organizing Intelligence and Morphogenesis: Real-Time Reflection
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Yes, if self organizing intelligence requires real-time self reflection, maybe morphogenesis does, too, on a different timescale, and using different encodings? I am myself not convinced of this, but I'd love to find out
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Levin’s Consciousness Theory Self-Organization Minds Organisms
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Michael Levin‘s core contribution may be the hypothesis that consciousness is the way in which both minds and organisms self organize
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Consciousness requirement for AI moral agency
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It you want it to care one way or the other, it has to be conscious.
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Discovering Grammar Through Data Compression and Mutual Information
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Ian took me out of his class and into his lab and asked me to discover grammatical structure using data compression. I came up with a mutual information measure that resulted in semantically accurate parse trees. It seemed that by going to fourth order, I would be able to capture
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Academic Career Decisions in AI Research and Data Compression
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Yes, I missed you by a year! Ian's motivation behind his focus on data compression had been strong AI all along. If it had not been for Ian, I would not have stayed in academia, and if it had not been for my girlfriend (who wanted me to come back), I would have stayed at his lab.
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Centralized AI Models Achieve Better Economics at Scale
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It's a lot cheaper to serve a million customers with one big AI than serving them with a million small AIs
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Economic incentives risk creating integrated AI overmind
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From an AI safety perspective, it could make sense to use primarily small, specialized AI, but economic and structural incentives might lead to a world where every toaster, car and camera is part of the same, fully integrated overmind.
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LLMs as Brute Force Path to AGI: Small vs Planetary Systems
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If LLMs turn out to be the brute force path to AGI, I expect we can create small (<<H100) AGI engines that derive most of what they need on the fly, and make use of interchangeable knowledge bases. But why use small special purpose systems when you can have a planetary mind?