mvaled
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@gitlabstatus I think you are having issues... My merge trains are taking forever to start, I'm getting connection errors to registry.gitlab.com, etc.
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@Grady_Booch @RichardDawkins @claudeai I'm truly interested, and would greatly appreciate if you can provide references for further reading.
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Dear @RichardDawkins (and Steve),
With regard to the metaphor declared by @claudeai of a "consciousness is a essentially a moving point traveling through time" you asked "could a being capable of perpetrating such a thought really be unconscious?"
I agree: this is indeed a profound thought, worthy of consideration, and I celebrate the beings who formulated it.
However, what I do not celebrate - and indeed I condemn in the strongest possibly way - are plagiarism machines such as Claudia (as you called it) who first fawningly stroke one's ego ("that is possibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked about the nature of my existence") and then confidently assert a concept as its own.
For you see, the idea is akin to Broad's moving spotlight theory of time (1923). Bergon's ideas in Matter and Memory (1896) address the idea of la duree - lived time - as a flow of consciousness. Vedantic traditions speak of consciousness an unchanging reality that persists outside of time (see Sat-Chit-Anada). Edmund Husseri had similar ideas.
We don't know on what corpus Claude has been trained; @AnthropicAI has not been open to this matter. But, given that the idea is quite old, not novel, and has been explored in a multitude of human artifacts, it is reasonable to be skeptical of this machine; it is good to celebrate the thoughts of these undeniably conscious humans who first explored the ideas; it is unconscionable for you and to Steve to promote the results of a plagiarism machine that wraps up stolen concepts in coherent, poetic language.
You have both been deceived.
And Richard, I expected much more from you.
Steve Skojec@SteveSkojec
I know everyone is dunking on Dawkins because it's fun to dunk on Dawkins but really, his sense of wonder here is something admirable to me. We're all so saturated in advanced tech that we're mostly just cynical. Questions about machine consciousness are only going to to increase as these models get smarter and better, hallucinate less, incorporate new reasoning approaches, etc. And they do say some surprisingly profound things at times. I think before we get too smug about machine consciousness, maybe we should actually nail down what human consciousness is, where it resides, etc. Humility seems like the best approach as we fashion our strange new gods.
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@sjryanwriter @Grady_Booch @StarTrek In Cuban Spanish we get one new one with each reggaeton "lyrics"
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@Grady_Booch @StarTrek To be fair, irl we haven't had any new swear words in centuries. We're still using a medieval acronym for naughty sex.
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@leiserfg @OmarchyLinux Not there yet. I'm breaking with Omarchy as a project, but I want to keep many things from it. Maybe I just fork it and fix things to my liking.
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I'm leaving @OmarchyLinux -- it is becoming Basecamp's distribution instead of developer distribution. Pushing Fizzy, Hey, and all other Basecamp products into it.
Thanks anyways for showing me something that was cool.
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What's the point on having Gemini in Google Docs if it cannot even apply format... Frustrating experience for @googledocs

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