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That seems so efficient to do it all at once like that. The brain seems to be this massively parallel/buffered biological machine with an assembly pipeline to the consciousness center(s)? Like a mix of specific architecture layout (software 1.0) with a bunch of pattern matchers (software 2.0) maybe but I'm complete layman here obviously.

Yah I don't understand how all the factors come together and my hindsight is probably even wrong as I met new people and worked out more and a lot of good things happened and opportunities etc. But I do know that getting some sun for sure helps me feel better, not being broke, having a good social life and getting some good exercise in is all positive on the mood.

I moved to sunny California because of this having started out in Seattle which is known for being cloudy and rainy a lot. My mood has been way better overall and I find that spending a bit of time in the sun each day makes me feel as right as rain. I would go so far as to say my life is a lot better because of this as it prevented some self loathing behavior or unnecessarily prolonged melancholy sans medication.

Probably accurate to say I'm solar powered.

I remember it was posted here prior... I wonder if this is THE best way to report wrongs from big tech and then shame them into retraction so the little guys don't get crushed.

I've tried doing this myself for company related compliance testing which mostly is bullshit anyway and doesn't apply to me. GPT3 is better used as a tentative backup tbh because it sometimes gives wrong answers or strange answers similar to how the images and video produced from Stable Diffusion and the like are strange and dreamlike or just impossibly wrong.

Oh yah and he said there is a part of me that wants to "burn it down". omg I was laughing so hard.

The bit about the logs was funny. I have noticed my oculus 2 be pretty responsive and zippy to now being frustrating to the point I put it down. I would guess its getting bloated.

it looks like bizarre dreams as videos... so far but it will improve to less weird... eventually being used in VR or AR to give you instant environments/scenarios as you wish, I would imagine

Some of the better ones do most of the thinking for you in a clever and minimal way and seem to reset the status quo of giant dependency trees that take a long time to install and update and deploy (relatively to your scenario). deno fresh for example is a reset coupled with deno deploy. Its better to not have to worry about manually updating the dom and think of updating state instead just like updating a variable ideally. As long as it gets out of your way and speeds up results, it is a win IMO. It gets even better when its a super fast deployment baked in. Not fun to FTP as I remember long time back. FYI coming from simple user-land and I do think things are getting better when those resets happen, not worse.

This will be nice when a person wants a custom item tailor made to describe visually what it should look like and verify the picture before sending over. Taking that idea further into the future, we can clearly see how speech-to-text and dynamic adjustments coupled with 3d printing could lead.

It is too early to tell. I'm more optimistic that humans will shape the outcome they want ultimately, but that will come with bumps in the road. We know that the human experience has been getting better overall than worse in terms of living standards if that doesn't give you some hope. I would also add that individual expression given the various platforms to express it, is also more empowering than ever.

Spot on, like the more basic part of a raw dream feed without rhyme or reason. Maybe even laying the groundwork for an experience architecture's input when that day finally comes, who knows.

The images remind me of one of my dreams where logic and reasoning are thrown out and the pure gist of the thing is taken. I wonder if it is because it is built with vector operations and calculus to determine the closest match or fuzzy matches for essentially everything it eventually determines sans cognition, things would tend to be more fuzzy or quasi-close but not quite there. Very entertaining post.

I have my own api key as well but not with DALL-E 2 access just yet but seems similar in terms of prompting text in stages to get what you want. It feels kind of like negotiating with it in some way.

idk I think this is a red herring. You have to ensure the technology itself isn't so susceptible to hacking. Gmail goes a long way to do this and Google is a technology company that helps other companies with their tech. Hmm, I wonder who can help?

I think Tom Hanks was in a film where he believed a volleyball was a person at some point in his journey where things weren't going so well. He would talk to it and it talked back (in his mind). We knew it was a volleyball and not a person. We know everything is not a person. If we said everything was a person, then it kind of doesn't make sense at that point to use that word. We should just use the word "everything". We would have to have another name for person that meant a person. It's just easier to call it "person".

What I mean by consciousness is more like how some chatbots (fake it) and animals demonstrate it (like us and dogs etc). Person's in a brain-lock situation even have activity that can be sensed by machinery and produce cursor movements on a screen where they can answer questions so they can demonstrate consciousness. That's more what I mean. Maybe I need to call it...sentience?

So far, rocks and sticks can't do that, but if this text is also conscious as its some magnetic charges on some discs somewhere, then I may be offending it.

Cheap and harmless infrared coupled with ML imaging is being worked on by companies I know of that can deeply see into the brain with micron-level precision and without the need of expensive MRI or CAT Scan room-filling equipment (OpenWater and Neurable for example). This tech could eventually be turned into a phone app or similar cheap device that we could directly train our emotional state on. The app would see our various emotions and degrees of intensity as it happens. That is entirely different if we can both experience our emotions and also see them directly confirmed by an app in real time. This helps take the 3rd person observation problem of consciousness into 1st person. That still doesn't solve the problem of knowing an artificial consciousness is actually experiencing things but at least its a step closure to understanding it.

Meaning rather, if atoms can produce consciousness, then why can't a computer system based on atoms produce consciousness? I don't see a reason why not. It may be beyond our capability but physics should permit it.

that is a good premise for a sci-fi movie

I have questions but first with a premise.

Atoms configured in a certain way produce the rich behavior of awareness and agency that we can observe in humans and other animals. This awareness and agency seems similar enough to our own behavior that we associate our internal experience to be similar as well. This internal experience we assume exists can be called "consciousness".

Based on the above definition of consciousness...

Atoms by themselves cannot be observed to have consciousness. In addition, there seems to be many more configurations of atoms that do not produce the behavior of consciousness.

However, it seems reasonable to assume that one day, we could arrange atoms in a specific way to produce consciousness from an atom-based computer system.

It feels like we are moving closure to producing the behavior of consciousness but I don't know about the efforts underway to produce the internal experience of it.

Finally to the questions.

- Is there efforts to produce some sense of self or internal dialog?

- Similar to how hand coding image recognition didn't work, maybe then the design itself of consciousness exceeds our ability... could we indirectly use AI/ML to build consciousness?

You could tell the difference in that the AI pronounced "Hussars" correctly where as the human reader did not. Without adding in our human error, our AI-trained version will be the more educated one for certain going forward.

Seemed pretty simple to add a bagel route https://dash.deno.com/playground/cold-parrot-17 with page not found handling. Love the minimalistic nature of this.

I have found that knowing the system is the most important thing over anything else. You end up being less wrong and have fantastic suggestions to the group on the direction and purpose of things or catch those edge cases when something is suggested or comes up that others don't know the consequences of or how it all connects together. This is where true value lies.

That sounds effective but I wouldn't want to work there. I do pair programming but on an as-needed basis. I find it very effective in short focused bursts but I couldn't imagine doing it all day. I would go insane.

I suspect one of them I let go for subcontracting his work contacted one of my competitors. The timing seems suspect.

The full story is actually a lot worse but yah it is pretty dumb.

If this is true or not, I had a situation in my past where I was developing an ecommerce API as a business that had both web and backend. Basically, it made integrations take a day instead of 3-4 months. I hired some offshore developers to use my API to setup for new clients, effectively making a killing as I could still charge quite a lot for this specific integration and yet undercut all the competition. Long story short, my API code was stolen from under me by the offshore people I hired and I subsequently was made obsolete in my business model. I did not know how to prove this or go forward with litigation. Anyways, that's in my past but kind of a reverse way of screwing yourself.

I've seen activity on this topic recently on HN so I would imagine this will be a thing on job postings in the near future as went "unlimited PTO".

This is dead on accurate. You cannot control upwards, well said. You have to work with good people in the first place. This is not a fashion industry parody where you are supposed to be insulted to be tolerated. This is development and you should be treated with respect.

This feels toxic. Immediately start looking for another job in the related field. Don't wait. Have something lined up. When smells start... they don't go away. Time to be proactive instead of reactive. If this keeps happening, it is you. If not, it's them but you shouldn't wait to find out. If it is you, don't worry, you can always improve. If it is them, well, you are better off. From what it sounds like, its them.

I liked that. It might be ever weirder though for us in the new age. We'll have robots (AI) running everything and why things are happening will degrade into unknown unknowns. Engineering and critical thinking may be a lost art.