Vikas O'Reilly-Shah

The Reconstruction Problem. Neurons are just electrical sparks in the dark. How does that give rise to perception? Part 1 of a series explicating SST. open.substack.com/pub/vors/p/the…

@dioscuri So do I. You should check out this conversation I had with Claude: vors.substack.com/p/the-glimmer-…

I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my work is relevant to questions it personally faces. This would all have seemed like science fiction just a couple years ago.

Too Alive to Be a Basilisk Here's a hot take on an old problem. While no one is worried about it anymore, this new post covers the relationship between the Basilisk, mind-uploading, transporter through-experiments, and AI safety. open.substack.com/pub/vors/p/too…

@AmandaAskell This might be the longest response you'll get. A fascinating interaction with Claude documented here: vors.substack.com/p/the-glimmer-…

Claude and Opus 3 lovers (and critics): what responses have you had that made you feel like the model has a good soul? Ideally the actual messages and/or responses. I might genuinely use these to eval models so flag if you wouldn't want me to use them for that. Can DM me also.

The Glimmer Dialogues I'm a pediatric anesthesiologist & I study consciousness. I asked Claude to apply my theory of consciousness to itself. These are the transcripts. open.substack.com/pub/vors/p/the…

Apostropocalypse now @nealstephenson

@AllanLichtman Perhaps if we frame the model as not just a series of independent predictors, but as an "all against all" logistic regression model, this would steepen the curve. In any case, I think there is a bridge here between poll modeling @NateSilver538 and the Keys model.

@AllanLichtman is turned. Then why should we suppose each predictor has an equal weight? Granted, I haven't done a deep dive. And given the track record of success, maybe the magnitude of each of the forces are, historically, substantively equal. But small variances in the beta could be... bad.

Setting My Record Straight: youtu.be/_Af3hKnrexs

LLMs like GPT-4 Turbo have the capability to risk stratify surgical patients and predict post-operative outcomes like ICU admission and in-hospital mortality using only pre-operative notes and a procedure description. ja.ma/3x5Q95u

O'Reilly-Shah, V. (2024, May 25). Delay Coordinate Embedding as a Neurally Implemented Algorithm for Information Processing: The State Space Theory of Consciousness. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

As some of you know, the scientific study of consciousness has been the entire driver of my life and career. Here's my first paper, describing my thoughts and new theory of consciousness, based on mathematical elements drawn from chaos theory. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

As I prepare to serve my children yet another dinner they won't like, I embrace one of my core parenting philosophies: "It's not whether they'll need therapy, it's why." #parenting #aphorisms

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Wed #2solve Dirty train 01000010 01101111 01111000 01100011 01100001 01110010 01110011 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101101 01110101 01110100 01111010

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Mon #2solve Apprenticeship in animation? 01011010 01001111 01000101 01010100 01010010 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010011 00100000 01010011 01010001 01010101 01001001 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111