Having a connection/s inside who are in on the game would make sense.
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But baseline BP is all about diet, exercise, good sleep routine and avoiding smoking.
Some foods like licorice can elevate BP; the glycyrrhizic acid inhibits an enzyme that deactivates cortisol.
I personally drink hibiscus tea a few times a week which is an ACE inhibitor and is shown to reduce systolic blood pressure by 5-7mmHg. Also the occasional beetroot juice (+ apple and carrot) or magnesium bisglycinate for a 2-5mmHh systolic reduction due to the nitric oxide.
I was looking at Google maps to locate some of the more obscure climbs outside the Yosemite valley proper. Little did I realise that Tommy Caldwell, Alex Honnold, Lynn Hill and others had done a project with Google to take a Street View camera up El Capitan (The Nose route but also parts of the Dawn Wall). Seriously the best in-person view to get an idea of what it's like pitch by pitch up the wall.
As an anecdote: Family member has a partial lateral meniscus tear in the knee. Surgery was considered as if successful then returning to running might have been possible. Specialist opinions varied as did their reading of the MRI scans.
After a lot of research there was emerging evidence that long-term, surgery was more likely to result in osteoarthritis. So had to weight up long-term mobility over short-term pain relief and not having a major lifestyle change.
You see professional athlete undergoing surgery the next day, but their income relies on regaining usage as quickly as possible. The alternative is physio exercises to strengthen the supporting muscles and avoiding anything that might cause a re-injury.
Co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Neville Roy Singham who lives in China, has extensive links to the CCP and is currently Code Pink's major funder.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-...
"Knowing what you don't know is the beginning of wisdom", and a new take on AI reasoning, but didn't actually use the word wisdom in the text.
Anyway, I think we're increasingly finding the old adage "garbage-in, garbage-out" still applies.
The question I would ask is: Does anyone first ask the AI for a non-coding solution rather than jumping straight to code? Is Systems Analysis dead? Does no one read Hawryszkiewycz anymore?
The lecturer had a side business building FoxPro apps for local businesses, and really pushed us with real-world style SQL puzzles.
Built an app to track my MtG cards at the time. (this was pre-Web)
I recently needed an "avatar" for the wall at work. The actual one I went with was a Tatakovsky-inspired minimalist avatar that was settled by the 4th prompt.
But I kept exploring and in the process had developed a canonical identity model definition which could then be transformed according to various art movements and other ideas, by the end focusing more on the light and materials than specific artists.
Some of my favourites and surprising ones out of the hundreds of images were:
- Prairie School with my portrait expressed as faceted timber
- Czech Cubism where my face was merged with the architecture
- Japanese sumi-e and ukiyo-e prints
- Delaunay triangulation
- Turing morphogenesis
- Magnetic fields
- Gaudi-inspired organic sculpture
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242706930_The_Rovin...
The real danger was being able to listen in and the potential for identity theft and recording conversations. ASIO recently issued a warning that government officials should avoid having confidential conversations in any internet-linked vehicle, so not just BYD.
BYD though are having a bad day with a major recall due to the spare wheel falling off Shark 6s.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/2024-26-byd-shark-6-recalled-b...
Might have to avoid driving behind one, as I see them everywhere.
He was very influential in pushing me to favour Many Worlds over Copenhagen, and his interviews with people like David Deutsch were gold. Might have to check out what he's doing these days.
Our model of the world, and this includes "memories" is very highly compressed, and extremely lossy. We reconstruct everything from what neurons activate when we recall something, so it can also be like a corrupted zip, where we don't access everything required in the moment. This can be affected by sleep, stress, hormones, etc.
What is quite interesting is when we try and recall something and can't, but the subconscious processing continues and you recall it later.
https://www.iluka.com/products-markets/rare-earth-products/
Not sure about Lynas and whether they have access to those rare earths from an alternate source to feed into their plant. The Mt Weld mine is carbonatite and mostly LRE rather than the Yytrium and Erbium heavy xenotime/monazite Iluka have stockpiled.
- Conscious is the substrate or architecture of the system.
- Awareness is the active resolution of inputs (external and internal) against that system's model.
- Subjective Experience is the feeling "what it is like to be" from within the system.
I also disagree with the "observer" position. Seems he's imported some Carlo Rovelli into this essay as they do collaborate together. You don't need an observer - it's the same reason I find Copenhagen / Wave function collapse to just seem wrong.
The reason I think quala is hard to pin down comes down to how the conscious internal model compresses what it has previously resolved about the world (internal and external).
The feeling of blueness is that highly compressed concept (not raw data about ranges of wavelengths) which is then compared against the blueness of something our awareness is focused on.
It's when you recognise the humanity of the individual - for example IR footage of a soldier trying to sleep in a foxhole before a drone drops a grenade. The aftermath starkly reminders you that this was a living person a few moments earlier.
- An internal model that is actively revised (the Markov blanket/s) - A continuing active resolution of inputs (either sensory or the ability to simulate "dream" - basically aliveness) - A persistent state of completed resolutions that are recursively reentered and affect the future resolutions.
Everything we might say have these abilities are organic, but a digital system could possibly be defined as being conscious if it met all those.
LLMs have an internal state, they respond to external input, they have a form of memory.
What is missing is agency; a directionality of resolution, and the subjective experience (what the conscious process "feels' like from inside.
I would suggest that those developed purely via evolution as the drive to procreate and stay alive against entropic decay.
When you stop typing, the LLM is not there wondering when or what you will type next. It responds if you ask it something, it doesn't wait around wanting to continue the conversation. There's also no loss if you stop or delete it completely.
The next phase could be adding something equivalent to dreaming (except a LLM doesn't sleep), where the LLM continues "thinking" about the conversation, and generates something additional to say without explicit prompting.
And maybe a digital system needs to know/sense/feel its potential mortality, and cares about that?
McGichrist write about the Master and the Emissary to explain the conscious and subconscious human brain. The octopus takes this to a whole new level with eight separate sub-brains, each a Markov blanket to itself as demonstrated when one gets severed. Unlike the tail of a drop-tail skink, the severed arm shows continuing evaluation and adjustment to its environment.
Is there a "what it is to be an octopuses arm", does it exhibit agency like a human? Most likely not but it blurs the boundary between organic and non-organic consciousness.
We want AI to make predictions under uncertainty that could be wrong. What we don't need is getting know facts wrong.
One of the best responses I got from ChatGPT was when it said "I don't know", and on questioning it - it responded that it was an unsolved problem and it couldn't objectively take a side iun the argument.
That this nightmare has never been fully resolved could be why it reoccurs.
I would guess when you see the monster it will stop, but depends what the monster is potentially standing in for. What you could consider is what triggers it - is there something during the preceding waking hours that causes you to revisit that dream?
In the Sparhawk series, Faran was the likeable character.
"It doesn't matter if people know what they are doing, if they can just do it intuitively"
As a teen I voraciously read my way through the Belgariad, and later the Malloreon, Elenium and the Tamuli.
Shocked to learn that Eddings and his wife were both convicted and jailed for child abuse prior to writing those novels.
(1) It maintains an internal model whose states are revised through interaction with constraints not fully determined by the model's own prior state. Constraints normally would mean reality (the world outside the Markov blanket), but we're talking simulation here.
(2) At least one frontier is currently open within that model — active resolution (awareness) is underway. Not dead.
(3) That frontier's resolutions recursively re-enter as inputs to the system's own subsequent frontier states. Friston's "embodied perception-action loop".
(1) & (2) could be said to apply to an inanimate object like a thermostat. (3) is the interesting one as the driver in organic life is the entropy gradient. Our "will to live" is a fight against thermodynamic decay and disorder. Maybe that could be simulated, a fight against glitching out, who knows.
Going offroad I discovered some nice physics like hitting a small rock at speed and it bouncing along beside me for a few seconds, or nearly getting stuck on the lip of something resembling a volcano.
Only suggestion would be somehow making finding the way back to the road easier when you get the other side of a block like a mountain range.
"The first step is defining what "consciousness" is!"
This is a compression I've been working on. There's a lot in it, but happy to expand on where I was going with it:
"Consciousness is the local projection of a world model recursively resolving its frontier with constraints. Awareness is the transient peak of constructive interference among competing resolutions, propagating only as far as the medium permits. The self is the story that awareness later tells about itself."
Qualia is just the experience of this process from the inside. That's all there really needs to be to it. As to why "something it is to be" emerges, I'd lean on Friston and the Free Energy Principle. It's also Friston's embodied perception-action loop where a thermostat fails the consciousness test.
One LLM would suggest a tightening of a particular axiom, and I would ask the rest what the consequences are: what is gained, what is lost and decide whether to use it. Often another would suggest a tweak that then goes back and a recursion.
I complimented ChatGPT yesterday for saying "I don't know".
It thanked me for observing that, before explaining in depth why that was the most appropriate response.
Does it actually appreciate it, absolutely not. It's not capable of that.
It has no desire to continue our conversation.
No regret if it ends.
It wont continue processing what was said after I stop.
There is no "what is it to be".
Its "memory" and the ability to go back to something related from earlier on or from a separate chat is an interesting and useful ability, but it can't ascribe any meaning to them beyond statistical significance.