I'm with him. Matrix arithmetic does not equal consciousness, no matter how good it is at imitating the way a "conscious" entity behaves Call me dogmatic if you like!
@simonw
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Windsurf faces backlash for lack of communication on crisis
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Windsurf going completely quiet on this one and not offering any form of update or mitigation strategies a bad look @windsurf
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SCAI terminology better than philosophical zombie concept
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Personally I like SCAI better than "philosophical zombie" – throwing the word "zombie" in there brings in all sorts of other pre-existing ideas and biases that might be distracting from the core idea
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Consciousness Simulation Risks in Advanced AI Systems
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I see him as the opposite of a religious fanatic here, warning how easy it is for fanaticism to grow around systems that can play-act being conscious
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Mustafa Suleyman warns of seemingly conscious AI dangers
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I really liked this piece by @mustafasuleyman warning of the dangers of "Seemingly Conscious AI"
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Weekly AI digest: Prompt injections, open-source models, and development tools
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Sent out my weekly-ish newsletter – this edition covers the latest prompt injections, gpt-oss, GitHub Codespaces, Gemma 3 270M, Qwen-Image-Edit and how congress. gov uses XSLT! https://
simonw.substack.com/p/prompt-injec
tions-as-far-as-the-eye
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Hands-free voice control for Claude Code on macOS
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Anyone got a good mechanism on macOS for completely hands-off Claude Code voice control? I've tried Wispr Flow but you still need to press a key to start and stop each transcription snippet I want to spend an hour telling Claude Code what to do vocally completely hands free
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Running Qwen and Llama Models on iPhone Apps
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Not a chance. iPhones can run the smaller Qwen and Llama models though I just tried Qwen 1.7B in this app and it runs quite fast (and hallucinates pretty much everything) https://
apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-
powered-by-liquid/id6448019325
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PyPI’s New Protection Against Domain Resurrection Attacks
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Notes on PyPI's new protection against domain resurrection attacks, where an attacker registers an expired domain in order to gain access to account reset emails
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JavaScript Execution in HTML Page Fetching
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No it doesn't seem to execute JavaScript when fetching an HTML page