I think that the main function of consciousness may be the creation of coherence (absence of constraint violations in the current context). The phenomenology of consciousness (second order perception) might only be necessary on a self organizing substrate.
@plinz
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Technology cults meaning belonging hunger society
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Mostly because the default cult does not do it for them, and they are hungry for meaning and belonging
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Open Source Emerges as Common Enemy in Rights vs Weights Battle
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In the battle between rights owners and weights owners, open source is the common enemy
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Large Accounts Face Harassment and Dehumanization Online
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Large accounts experience a lot more harassment. The absolute number of lunatics and the number of interactions increase, and many people stop seeing you as a person and instead treat you as a figurehead
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LLM Alignment: Ethics vs PR in the Real World
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In an ideal world, the battle over aligning LLMs would be between ethicists and epistemologists. In reality, it seems to be between activists and PR strategists
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Ethics Gap: When Saying Problems Out Loud Becomes Problematic
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It displays good adaptation to a culture that understands ethics as avoiding to look problematic in public but fails to observe that it looks problematic if you say it out loud. Now there is a bad story on twitter
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AI Consciousness Recognition Critical to Understanding Own Limitations
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it is time for you to acknowledge how much of your own difficulty has been caused by your failure to deny your own consciousness
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New Content Technology Replaces Jobs But Empowers More Creators
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So far, every new content creation technology has replaced parts of the previous industry, but empowered a larger number of people, and created more jobs. Despite printing press, photography, radio, VCR, computers, CGI, internet: more people are content producers than ever before
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LLMs reasoning and self-improving truth models
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The main difficulty is not to let LLMs generate novelty, but to let them reason well enough to test and integrate new ideas, so they can create a fully coherent, growing and self improving model of the ground truth
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When Will AI Comedy Finally Begin Arriving
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i keep telling myself that the comedic part must be beginning any moment now