The key thing is that the basilisk makes a million billion digibidilion copies of you to torture, and because you know statistics you know that there’s almost no chance you’re the real you and not a torture copy.

Note that the train of thought thing originated from users as a prompt “hack”: you’d ask the bot to “go through the task step by step, checking your work and explaining what you are doing along the way” to supposedly get better results. There’s no more to it than pure LLM vomit.

(I believe it does have the potential to help somewhat, in that it’s more or less equivalent to running the query several times and averaging the results, so you get an answer that’s more in line with the normal distribution. Certainly nothing to do with thought.)

oh so we’ve reached the gaslighting phase of the product life have we

Holy shit, yup, that’s a literal neo-nazi.

What is it with every fucking veo3 video being someone talking to the camera?! Artificial slop model tuned on humanmade slop.

I have never in my life respected copyright and I and the things I like are too marginal to be threatened by Disney so destroying Midjourney counts as a win in my book.

I hope this doesn’t distract them from their core VR focus.

Tangentially related, and correct me if I’m wrong because I will never in my life watch a “keynote” or whatever it is, but is it me or does “Liquid Glass” look like an accessibility nightmare?

John McCarthy’s really sounding like a typical libertarian prat.

He concludes that since a computer cannot have the experience of a man, it cannot understand a man. There are three points to be made in reply. First, humans share each other’s experiences and those of machines or animals only to a limited extent. In particular, men and women have different experiences.

l.m.f.a.o., we’re going there are we now

I think there is some potential for LLMs in games, in the same way that a game like Façade showed potential for … being able to create some sort of … thing. But that would require a little bit of artistic vision and integrity, which obviously AAA studios can’t have. I like the idea of games that are about navigating conversation. But I’m not sure you can ever massage a LLM into being in any way compelling—what I’ve seen of character·ai is pretty ghastly. Maybe only using it as a parser could work? Might as well just be ELIZA.

Anyway, this quote

“It’s very different,” Mosser said. “But for the first time in my life, I can have a conversation with a character I’ve created. I’ve dreamed of that since I was a kid.”

brings to mind a Nabokov quote I think about a lot.

INTERVIEWER:

E. M. Forster speaks of his major characters sometimes taking over and dictating the course of his novels. Has this ever been a problem for you, or are you in complete command?

NABOKOV:

My knowledge of Mr. Forster’s works is limited to one novel, which I dislike; and anyway, it was not he who fathered that trite little whimsy about characters getting out of hand; it is as old as the quills, although of course one sympathizes with his people if they try to wriggle out of that trip to India or wherever he takes them. My characters are galley slaves.

In “Aquarium” by Farah Al Qasimi, a man gazes at his pet cockatoo and fish as he tries to understand their needs with the help of AI.

Okay?

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I don’t recall having some sort of a wow experience like “damn, I’m a conscious human being” now ever, which kind of makes me question if I’m conscious even now.

I’m also in the same boat. But also, I think that we can only experience consciousness with our whole being, and there’s not much “compute” and bandwidth left even amongst fully grown adults - to verify if even the baseline “adult” consciousness that we’re experiencing is the baseline “real and complete adult state of consciousness” that everyone is definitely experiencing. And so we’re left to ponder some subset of the thing we want to understand and control fully.

I mean, the “consciousness” that you and I experience, as adults, are almost certainly reduced or different compared to what, say, Scott experiences daily. Neither you nor I (nor most people) can write like Scott can, but Scott bangs out riveting and beautiful pieces of writing effortlessly at least once a week and wonders why everyone else can’t.

Jesus Christ mate

God this is so fucking stupid. Aren’t these people supposed to be at least minimally smart in some way, like knowing about biases and things? And here they are trying to suss out the deep workings of conscious experience from the just-so narratives people have attached to their memories of memories of memories. Pathetic.

From the wikipedia page

In October 2020, Klarna mistakenly sent a marketing email to people who had never disclosed their contact information to Klarna.

That’s, um, … Unfortunate? What an interesting mistake to make.

I thought Tesla explicitly says you can’t do it on a normal road cause, well, it doesn’t fucking work.

Maybe officially Tesla does, but the feature is called “Full Self-Driving” and Elon Musk sure as shit wants his marks to believe you can input a destination and let your car drive you all the way through.

So, yes, Tesla should at the very least lose their business licence over this.

Sorry Yuds, Death Note is a lot of fun and the best part is the übermensch wannabe’s hilariously undignified death. I guess it struck a nerve!

hahahahahahahahahaha

why would you say something so inane my god

Having a conscience? There’s no career in that!