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It is still a first party web interface.

uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock works just fine. When it comes to AI content, just ignore it and it'll dissapear from your recommendations. For virtually everything wrong with youtube there's an add-on to fix it or a behavior to change. So many people can't help but watch short-form content for example and then they complain their feed is all shorts - I wonder why.

No idea. I did it myself with a dremel.

That's one way do deal with the traffic: just make your state so shitty place to live that everyone moves elsewhere.

Mine has my name engraved on it permanently as is the case with most of my possessions. I love the horror on people's face when they hear you've intentionally "damaged" something valuable. Stock items have no character. Customize everything.

You recognize one word in there and because you associate it with cryptocurrency you dismiss the entire thing.

This comment section gave me brain damage.

There’s also the concept of consciousness without memory. What’s that like? Being able to experience the current moment but having no memory of any past experiences - including your experience one second ago. Or here’s a scary thought: what if general anesthesia doesn’t actually switch off consciousness but simply blocks new memories from forming? You could experience the full horror of being awake during surgery but remember none of it. From the perspective of “now,” that would be functionally the same as never having experienced it at all. Then there are those extremely weird recordings from split-brain studies. Back when grand mal seizures were treated by cutting the corpus callosum - the bridge between the two brain hemispheres - to stop the “storm” from spreading. On the surface these patients seemed completely normal after the operation, but some really strange stuff shows up when you start testing them properly. There’s a way you can communicate with each hemisphere independently without the other one knowing. The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body, the right hemisphere the left side. You can flash text on the left side of the visual field (which only the right, non-verbal hemisphere sees), then hand them a pen and let the left hand (controlled by the right hemisphere) answer questions by writing. Turns out that the two halves often don’t agree on things. Ask the right hemisphere what it wants to do for a living and you’ll get a different answer than what the left hemisphere says out loud. Or you can give the right hemisphere a task - “go get a glass of water” - and when you ask the left hemisphere why it did that, it just makes up an explanation. “I was thirsty,” it’ll say, even though the researchers know that’s not true. It genuinely seems like there are two separate consciousnesses running in the same brain at the same time. The big question is: were they there all along, or does the second one only emerge once the connection between them is cut? And yeah, this is all stuff I’ve absorbed from podcasts covering these topics - mostly from Sam Harris. I’m just naturally really curious about the human mind, and I’m pretty experienced with meditation as well, so I probably pay attention to my day-to-day conscious experiences about 1% more than the average person. I’m however not in any way expert on this. It’s not even remotely related to what I do for living.

It’s the fact of subjective experience - the warmth of a campfire, the bitterness of lemon, the greenness of green. We’re essentially talking about consciousness here. The fact that there’s something it is like to be.

While nobody knows what consciousness is or how it comes about, what I mean by it is best captured by the philosopher Thomas Nagel in his aforementioned essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”

Nagel argues that consciousness has an essentially subjective character, a what-it-is-like aspect. He states that “an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism – something it is like for the organism.

I can only suppose that of other people as well. There’s no way to measure consciousness. The only evidence of its existence is the fact that it feels like something to be me from my subjective perspective. Other humans behave the way I do so I assume they’re probably having similar experiences but I have no idea what it’s like to be a bat for example.

However, answering the question “what it’s like to be” is not relevant here. What’s relevant is that existence has qualia at all.

If only..

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In 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have been able to predict the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have identified. Since their breakthrough, AlphaFold2 has been used by more than two million people from 190 countries. Among a myriad of scientific applications, researchers can now better understand antibiotic resistance and create images of enzymes that can decompose plastic.

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Consciousness (the fact of experience) doesn't necessarily need to be linked to intelligence. It might be but it doesn't have to. An LLM is almost definitely more intelligent than an insect but it most likely is like nothing to be an LLM but it probably is like something to be an insect.

Few of countless dictionary definitions for intelligence:

• The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
• The ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations
• The ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
• The act of understanding
• The ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason
• It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

There isn’t even concensus on what intelligence actually means yet here you are declaring “AI is not intelligence” what ever that even means.

Artificial Intelligence is a term in computer science that describes a system that’s able to perform any task that would normally require human intelligence. Atari chess engine is an intelligent system. It’s narrowly intelligent as opposed to humans that are generally intelligent but it’s intelligent nevertheless.

Adult men having sex with adult women is fine with me. Adult men having sex with another man? Hell no. Engaging in that is the thin end of the wedge in my view. Why is this not a valid reason to ban homosexuality but it’s good enough to ban sex dolls?

is absolutely disgusting Why not ban scat fetish then as well?

Cost isn’t the only issue but it plays a big factor and this is a well established fact I didn’t think I’d even need to debate. High calorie and low nutrition food (processed snacks, sugary drinks, fast food, refined carbs, and added fats/sugars) are cheaper per calorie than their nutrient-dense higher quality counterparts (fresh vegetables, fruits, lean proteins, whole grains, etc.).

Yeah because poor people are famously known for switching to home cooked vegan meals which naturally decreases their calorie intake.

Food isn’t expensive - high quality food is. Junk is cheap which is why obesity is especially issue with low-income families. Nobody is starving.

If they’re so smart then why do they have issues that my dumb dash cam doesn’t?

Oh, I heard you - I simply wasn’t paying attention because the topic didn’t interest me.

I don’t disagree but my point was that usually with news like this it’s someone trying to slip in video game footage as real to potray their military more capable than it really is or to claim that something was hit when it actually wasn’t. I think it’s safe to assume that this is what most people imagine happened here too but this is different. It’s just a PSA - I’m not defending what they’re doing.

It is real but probably not what people think. They’re not exactly hiding the fact that they’re using footage from a game.

I have no issue with an online service knowing my age for as long as that’s all they know and will ever know about me.

I’m sure the title here is accurate summary of the conclusion of the study and I don’t need to even check because as a person who doesn’t conscume short-form media this confirms something I already know to be true about myself.

I never claimed it will.

Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI employees who left largely due to ethical and safety concerns about how OpenAI was being run. This is just them sticking to their principles.