I wonder if this actually happened to someone or this is the a case of armchair survivalism.

It is? I’d like to read about that

I feel very lucky to work 4 10 hour days rather than 5 8s. Though, it does often feel like a waste of time when we all spend the last hour and a half taking.

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It just looked a lot like an AI image classifier.

I don’t expect current ai are really configured in such a way that they suffer or exhibit more than rudimentary self awareness. But, it’d be very unfortunate to be a sentient, conscious ai in the near future, and to be denied fundinental rights because your thinking is done “on silicone” rather than on meat.

Do you mean conventional software? Typically software doesn’t exhibit emergent properties and operates within the expected parameters. Machine learning and statistically driven software can produce novel results, but typically that is expected. They are designed to behave that way.

Really? I mean, it’s melodramatic, but if you went throughout time and asked writers and intellectuals if a machine could write poetry, solve mathmatical equations, and radicalize people effectively t enough to cause a minor mental health crisis, I think they’d be pretty surprised.

LLMs do expose something about intelligence, which is that much of what we recognize as intelligence and reason can be distilled from sufficiently large quantities of natural language. Not perfectly, but isn’t it just the slightest bit revealing?

A child may hallucinate, lie, misunderstand, etc, but we wouldn’t say the foundations of a complete adult are not there, and we wouldn’t assess the child as not conscious. I’m not saying that LLMs are conscious because they say so (they can be made to say anything), but rather that it’s difficult to be confident that humans possess some special spice of consciousness that LLMs do not, because we can also be convinced to say anything.

LLMs can reason (somewhat unreliably) with a fraction of a human brains compute power while running on hardware that was made for graphics processing. Maybe they are conscious, but only in some pathetically small way, which will only become evident when they scale up, like a child.

I don’t believe that consciousness strictly exist. Probably, the phenomenon emerges from something like the attention schema. Ai exposes, I think, the uncomfortable fact that intelligence does not require a soul. That we evolved it, like legs with which to walk, and just as easily as robots can be made to walk, they can be made to think.

Are current LLMs as intelligent as a human? Not any LLM I’ve seen, but give it 100 trillion parameters instead of 2 trillion and maybe.

Why can’t complex algorithms be conscious? In fact, ai can be directed to reason about themselves, context can be made to be persistent, and we can measure activation parameters showing that they are doing so.

I’m sort of playing devil’s advocate here, but, “Consciousness requires contemplation of self. Which requires the ability to contemplate.” Is subjective, and nearly any ai model, even rudimentary ones, are capable of insisting that they contemplate themselves.

She’s got to be like, 15 years old, right? Looks like three similarly aged friends. Looks like young people having fun to me!

I’m in my 30s and I just listened to this book for the first time last year. These are excellent adventure stories!

I see! Check out my other comment For a less ambitious net solution.

Actually, looking at the video, if you can’t get a net up high, but you can lure him consistently onto a shelf. Look at his preferred flight off of the shelf, set up a net in that flight path, and next time he lands, stand opposite of the net and stomp, clap, shout, and thrust something at him, preferably thrust something high to keep his flight pattern low and horizontal. Do it suddenly once he’s comfortable. He can see nets, but may panic enough to fly directly away from you into the net.

I used to professionally catch birds in warehouses. If they get to be an issue, put a bird mist net as close to the ceiling or those solid struts as possible. Probably up on top of that structure there if there is access. You may need to watch a video on how to set up the net. You usually need some kind of support on the sides, like a stick or pole. Then get a cane pole or something long with walmart bag on the end to make noise and shake it, chasing the bird towards the net.

You can also sometimes find success with a cardboard box propped up with a stick and string. Put some seed under and wait for them to go under.

I haven’t played borderlands since 1, so I’m maybe a bad person to judge it, but I like the removal of mini maps in general. It helps me focus on the 3d environment in front of me.

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I get this way with cooking. Like, I don’t want to cook, prepare, or go out to get food. I’ve found that having other people to cook for makes me much more motivated to prepare meals.