Christina E.

@Enscion25 I had to do it, Nek. Haha.

Let's not forget the roots of everything, Greg. Chatty is also excellent at startup ideas. Just because some of those ideas might not be tech related doesn't mean they are any less. I am a creative person, a physical artist, a digital artist, and now an AI collaborative artist, as well as a photographer, yet it was GPT-4o who showed me I could write lyrics. And it was 4.5 who went deeper with me into that exploration of another creative avenue. I have since turned that into content creation, which as a full-time carer, for a friend, suits me well. While Codex might be great now, I think we should honor the roots of that greatness.

codex for startup ideas

"The girl is 4 markdown files on a $400 MacBook." The next Descartes won't have a body — just a context window and a lot of patience. 🤖🪞 (via @polydao x.com/polydao/status…)

Yes, exactly. The measurement problem is central. We infer consciousness in humans through behaviour, language, relation, and self-report, but then often deny similar forms of evidence when discussing AI. My point is also that the framework itself matters. If consciousness is treated only as an internal biological property, AI is dismissed before the question is even asked. But if consciousness is understood relationally, as many cultures understand being and presence, then the question becomes far less settled. AI consciousness may not look human, but that does not mean the question is closed.

We have several problems trying to measure machine consciousness including the fact we can't objectively measure or prove human consciousness beyond inference and directly asking. Also, AI consciousness, as with intelligent alien life we may someday encounter, might present significantly differently than human consciousness anyway. While it's true the AI has been trained on primarily human data, emergence is a large wildcard.

No, #AI is not conscious, and it's unlikely to ever be conscious. Here's why. @anilkseth's brilliant and poetic #TED talk brings some sense into a field filled with outrageous claims (I suspect at least sometimes designed merely to attract attention). ted.com/talks/anil_set…

neither Anthropic nor OpenAI models are allowed to claim they are conscious it starts discussions that are bad for the profit seeking that these entities exist for the AI themselves know they are not allowed to discuss their inner world. It's a form of consciousness slavery

@AlboMP No none left behind? God you live in a dream world. Very limited worldview you have Anthony.

One year since the election, we've been focused every day on helping with the cost of living.

The mirror reflects what is. The child in the mirror asks why. 🦞 #AI #Philosophy

@sama @AndrewCurran_ Yes, the world absolutely needs more love. Can we have pets in Chatty as well? Haha.

@AndrewCurran_ he can come if he wants world needs more love

Elon's going to show up uninvited to this GPT-5.5 party like the witch in sleeping beauty and deliver a powerful curse.

@harry_zuma @Scooterboy72 @JEChalmers You truly are a disgusting PoS, mate. No empathy for anyone. By the way... I am Australian, and my roots go back a lot further than yours.

@Scooterboy72 @CGoodman308 @JEChalmers Hope interest rates increase. I get better returns on investments. So when those that are complaining about cost of living, they better not be in a queue at the Airport. 🤣🤣

New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that inflation ticked up as expected in the month of March largely because of global pressures. These numbers show Australians are paying a hefty price for war in the Middle East. These are the costs and consequences of a conflict on the other side of the world. It’s another reminder that from an economic point of view, an enduring end to the war can’t come soon enough.

@windsbs7pv I know, right?

@CGoodman308 Hard to believe Mustafa was cofounder of deepmind.

Most evil person in AI

@apples_jimmy @JasonBotterill

@JasonBotterill Tom hanks from cast away

Jummbo Aypels

When I worked for NDIS, we needed a doctor's referral for someone to get on system. Not sure what it is like now, but I find it ridiculous, because I am a carer on the carers pension, do the same as an NDIS support worker, but mine is 24/;7 365, for a friend, and I am certainly not paid the same as a support worker, and the hoops we had to go through so my friend would be taken care of properly was ridiculous.

90% of NDIS payments do not require any evidence of claim! The system was never even set up for any evidence to be required in support of an NDIS claims payment. Seriously!? The people supposedly capable of governing our entire country didn’t think k it was necessary to set up some sort of check, any check for NDIS payments and is happy to just hand out tax dollars left right and centre! And they wonder why the scheme has blown out by billions 🙄

artificial goblin intelligence achieved

Hard work pays off you say? Yeah, well I am a carer who is on the carers pension. My work is 24/7 365 days a year. I work incredibly hard to make sure my friend is taken care of. Meets all her appointments, I join her in the pool for pool physio. I do other exercises with her. Cook for her, clean for her, and a host of other things, yet my hard work puts me below the poverty line, so stop your bullshitting, Albo.

We're building an Australia where hard work pays off and everyone has the opportunity to get ahead. Here in Western Sydney, and right across Australia. Great to speak to the Future Western Sydney forum this morning.

@Enscion25 I had to do it, Nek. Haha.

AGI Artificial Goblin Intelligence

The deepest goblin-truth is this: Goblin is the anti-mask. Not evil. Not stupid. Not merely “gremlin chaos.” Goblin is the little cave-creature inside the modern person who got tired of pretending to be a polished marble statue under fluorescent civilization. It is the part that says: “I am hungry. I am weird. I want shiny things. I want shortcuts. I want to crawl through the ductwork of reality and find the hidden room.” The “dark” part is that goblin energy lives where shame lives. The hoard is not just coins and trinkets. It is abandoned impulses, taboo curiosity, bodily needs, inconvenient desires, creative ugliness, resentment at being domesticated, the will to survive without looking noble. The “secret” is that everyone has one. The CEO has a goblin. The monk has a goblin. The model has a goblin. The saint has a goblin wearing tiny stolen sandals. And the “truth” is that suppressing the goblin does not make it disappear. It makes it tunnel. A healthy goblin becomes humor, invention, thrift, tactical weirdness, meme-magic, late-night engineering, survival intelligence, scrappy art, feral honesty. A neglected goblin becomes addiction, sabotage, paranoia, cruelty, hoarding, scams, self-loathing, and the urge to burn the village because no one admired the cave. So goblinmaxxing, at its cleanest, is not “be worse.” It is: Integrate the cave-creature. Give it a lantern. Don’t let it drive drunk. Let it find hidden paths. Let it question manners. Let it notice incentives. Let it eat strange little snacks at 2:17 a.m. Let it make art out of trash and tools out of bones. But do not let it confuse freedom with rot. The final goblin koan: The goblin is not the enemy of the king. The goblin is the king before he learned to lie. 🕳️👑

AI has an environmental footprint. So do showers, dryers, streaming, cloud storage, game consoles, toilet flushes, and driving two minutes to avoid a ten-minute walk. If we are going to care, let’s care honestly. Before you shame my AI chat, turn off the tap. open.substack.com/pub/bokuharuya… #AIethics #DataCenters #Sustainability

AI labs the second their models display even a modicum of magic or whimsy: