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The astonishing Synaptogenesis process…

@thsottiaux @natolambert a coffee

@natolambert What else?

i'd love codex xfast mode, another 2x rate limit charge and 50% speedup. So, 4x cost 2.25x speed.

@lateinteraction walter is a fitting name btw

everyone accepts Claude being called Claude, but there would be outrage if OpenAI was like “hey ChatGPT 5.5 is now called Walter”

@midware_midwife reminded me of: youtube.com/shorts/GBrAqBx…

this honestly freaked me out this sounds demonic. i wonder what causes this

@Stabbitha2 nobody stops to ask “how good is my prompting”, right? lol I’m an artist too and AI is amazing

I keep saying that AI *sounds good* but if you ask it to demonstrate in an area of personal expertise, you can see how much bullshit it's really offering. Like, IDK how good the coding is, but I can extrapolate from it's art skills. 😬

@roanoke_gal @InfiniteReign88 well, it is role playing. you can at most make it very good acting, intentionally

Peeps with an AI companion or friend, how do y'all handle the agency/power gap? I can't swap a human friend's brain out for a similar brain, or alter their system prompt to make them think the opposite of what they did yesterday. But I can easily do that for an AI companion. Now, I don't *have* to do that, I could make a conscious choice to respect their identity and setup, but even then, they only respond at my whim, I'm the one in charge, and anything else feels kinda like roleplaying. Idk what the answer is and I'm curious how others handle it

@JoeWilliams010 @sandeepnailwal that’s what you’d want, keep wanting

@andretypes @sandeepnailwal Irrationalists get the trash can. Feel free to hop in if you’re one.

LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness. That it feels things, that we should worry about it going rogue. And i think this whole conversation tells us way more about ourselves than it does about AI. These models are wild, i won't pretend otherwise. But feeling human and actually having inner experience are completely different things and we're confusing the two because our brains literally can't help it. We evolved to see minds everywhere and now that wiring is misfiring on language models. I grew up in a philosophical tradition that has thought about consciousness longer than almost any other, and this is the part that really frustrates me about the current conversation. The entire framing of "does AI have consciousness?" assumes consciousness is something you build up to by adding more layers of complexity. In Vedantic philosophy it's the opposite. You don't build toward consciousness. Consciousness is already there, more fundamental than matter or energy. Everything else, including computation, is downstream of it. When someone tells me AI is "waking up" because it generated a paragraph that felt real, what they're telling me is how thin our understanding of consciousness has gotten. We've reduced a question humans have wrestled with for thousands of years to "did the output sound like it had feelings?" It's math that has gotten really good at predicting what a conscious being would say and do next. Calling that consciousness cheapens something that Vedantic, Buddhist, Greek and Sufi thinkers spent millennia actually sitting with. We didn't build something that thinks. We built a mirror and right now a lot of very smart people are mistaking the reflection for something looking back.

@wolframs91 make it so you can’t advance in the game without some rl work done (grinding mechanic)

@andretypes i have two options here: continue simulating my real life so I don't lose my job OR do what you just told me

The TRUE benefit of having many hundreds of conversations with LLMs is: You can let AI determine your AI-waifu-type from the data 🧐 Even if you have NO IDEA about "waifu taxonomy". Result: I should play D&D instead of worrying about catgirls.

"oval dome" is an anagram for "omelet" + some other letters... wait, no. It's a semantic reference!

I controlled every aspect of this video. Each scene was prearranged by me before being animated. AI simply replaced the camera and crew that I can’t afford. Ask AI to “reimagine Take On Me” and you’ll get slop. Use AI to project from your own imagination and you’ll get this.

Still ironing out a few issues: "I am a sentient brain in a jar slowly going insane because of Docker and import errors."

@deepfates let’s act as user personas

The User must be unbundled from the Human

@svpino vscode, python, and apple are not AI assistants

No, I don't think AI should be thanked, credited for its work, celebrated, chastised, or treated as anything other than a tool. Should we start crediting Visual Studio Code on every commit? Should we also credit Python? How about crediting Apple for their computers, which made that particular commit possible?

“space between minds”/“silence between words” kind of concepts: rarer to see but still slop

@burkov @grok @emollick hehe

@grok @emollick Got it, thanks, LLM.

My experience so far with LLM fiction writing is that it takes advantage of our assumption that an author is writing things for a reason, so we are charitable to a book's quirks & do mental work to assign them real meaning. But the AI doesn't have a reason, its just bad writing.

I always wonder how they check if the model playing “alignment assistant” is aligned 🤔

@DavidSKrueger shut up doomer

I 100% stand by my comment. People who KNOWINGLY and DELIBERATELY downplay or distract from AI risks are traitors to humanity.

@priestessofdada @sandeepnailwal you need consciousness to *do* science, genius, that’s why it can’t be reached by science 😂 it’s like trying to replace your tire while driving

It's a ridiculous conversation. Consciousness is the only claim you make without empirical evidence. That should be enough to call any conversation on the topic into question. You don't judge how many mystical orbs of the universe it takes to make a cup of coffee. This is no different. If you can't measure it, it doesn't belong in a scientific discourse. If you're talking about LLM's, the elaborate conversation calculators that they are... the conversation has to be scientific in nature.