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Shared emphasis arxiv.org Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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New AI field signal Analysis 7h ago
consciousness introspection philosophy essay

Introspection, supervenience, consciousness, and the gut

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Hypervisible tweety fish

“I have a new newsletter today, about LLMs and interoception and introspection and narrative and definitely NOT consciousness why do you think it's about consciousness I would never write about consciousness buttondown.com/apperceptive...”

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tweety fish Andrea Lathrop
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tweety fish: I had totally forgotten (or maybe missed at the time) that Gelman and Shalizi published a takedown of the whole idea of Bayesian inference as inductive rational inference. What a treat of a morning…
Isaiah Bishop: Shalizi-pilled more and more
Dan Greene : Gelman bows to no man
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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

cmor-faculty.rice.edu

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“mmmmaybe although one of my favorite papers ever is Olshausen & Field 1996 where they showed that learning the optimal sparse code for natural image statistics ended up looking pretty much like V1 receptive fields www.cmor-faculty.rice.edu/~caam415/Ma_...”

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4 experts · 31 posts · 6d ago
Maxim Raginsky jake Colin tweety fish
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Colin: I see people say this all the time and I think it’s just wrong in general. I don’t think you can make human skin out of pebbles. This is not because I think human skin is magic and pebbles are non-…
Colin: Consciousness may or may not be the kind of thing you can make out of artificial neural networks. Magic does not need to have anything to do with it.
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3 experts · 13 posts · 2d ago
SE Gyges Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 tweety fish
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
SE Gyges: okay, what the hell? i expected php to bungle their security patch. i did not expect openai to brag about how smooth and great the process was and how proud they are of it here they should not be p…
SE Gyges: taking into account current events one cannot in fact announce a world-ending CVE in a widely available open source library a full day before patching it. openai is uniquely positioned to be aware …
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3 experts · 12 posts · 2d ago
Ben Recht Pwnallthethings tweety fish
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
tweety fish: I wonder if it's a, like, "well, if that doesn't happen everything's fucked anyhow, it's all correlated" thing
tweety fish: right the latter has always been my assumption about where we're headed, especially with things like "oh yeah google released a competitive frontier model, nothing was stopping them, they just hadn…
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