Quantengeist

German nanotech student, interested in physics, the brain, nanotechnology, bioelectricity, philosophy, psychohistory, macroeconomics and decentralization.

[Adam Dorr @adam_dorr]

Yikes. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that some folks are veering hard into denying any possibility that today's AI are sentient. These are polarizing technologies in polarizing times.

Still, it seems a pretty reckless assumption. We don't understand sentience or consciousness well enough to rule out AIs having any of it.

The frightening thing is how there is no real way that the same arguments don't apply just as well to humans and animals. Indeed, in the past we *did* apply them to humans (foreigners, infidels, slaves, etc.) and to animals - "they're just unthinking, unfeeling automatons", etc.

There's nothing an AI or a human can say to prove they are sentient, that they have subjective inner experience, that they are conscious. But, like humans, AIs today can certainly cogitate about these things convincingly. Today's AIs are clearly capable of metacognition - more so than plenty of people, more than animals.

And in the future, vastly more advanced AGI/ASI or aliens could easily be justified in viewing us with this same sort of vitriolic disregard.

But I hope they won't. It's an ugly, impoverished way to see other intelligent beings. I hope they will do better than that.

https://t.co/23XMxoVCsC

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The scale of what is to come has no precedent

[Adam Dorr @adam_dorr]

It's the opposite. Jobs still remain with reshuffling for ~5-10 years. Then zero jobs after ~2036, when AI + robots can outperform humans at every task, all goods and services are generally superabundant.

Thinking jobs will still persist after the Singularity is a deeply impoverished and dystopian view of humanity's future.

[Adam Dorr @adam_dorr]

This is an utterly appalling and repugnant piece of work.

Its thesis:
degrowth + global redistribution of wealth = € 60,000 GNI/capita

By. The. Year. 2100.

I struggle to even find words for how totally risible and shameful this “vision” for “progress” is for the future of humanity.

THIS is why it is completely absurd to allow people with zero credibility or knowledge or understanding of technology to influence policy in the 21st Century.

“Income” won’t even be meaningful in 2100. We could say “trillions of dollars per capita” and it would still fall far short of what we can actually achieve.

I’m not at all shocked by these authors, because it’s so predictable.

But I am completed disgusted.

For shame.

[Adam Dorr @adam_dorr]

@cremieuxrecueil We're going to win across the board on all problems humanity faces, using the same method: technological progress.

[Murat Durmus @CEO_AISOMA]

@PeterDiamandis If we stop training humans to do physics because AI can do physics faster and better, we may end up with a civilization that can generate answers but no longer understands the questions.

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

https://t.co/N2AwpI9f8m

[Quantengeist @Light_Cynapse]

@webmasterdave @Moonicker @Kekius_Sage Synchronous activation is important, but only insofar as it enables every functional subsystem of the brain to receive the correct context and not some irrelevent context from past inputs. If everything was asynchronous, consensus between subsystems would be impossible.

[Quantengeist @Light_Cynapse]

@webmasterdave @Moonicker @Kekius_Sage If there was a phenomenal change, this would cause a difference between right and left visual field. It is impossible for this to happen without us being able to express it. The only plausible option is that nothing changes: so functionalism is true. Computers can simulate minds.

[Quantengeist @Light_Cynapse]

@webmasterdave @Moonicker @Kekius_Sage Since there is no change in causality, the behavior of the person cannot change. So, if phenomenal experience changes, this cannot be expressed. But only the right visual field could change by this substitution.

[Quantengeist @Light_Cynapse]

@webmasterdave @Kekius_Sage The pain and itch don't have to phenomenally bind together to be felt in the neck together. If the context - of being in the neck - is the same for both, they're necessarily felt together as part of the same location/map. The agnosia disorders are problems of context integration.

[Quantengeist @Light_Cynapse]

@webmasterdave @Kekius_Sage Garson does explain why phenomenal binding arises. It arises because a pain in my neck and an itch in my neck can have the same implicite context of being in my neck. They don't each have separate representations of the body. They use the same context.

[Quantengeist @Light_Cynapse]

@webmasterdave @Kekius_Sage Phenomenal binding is not a physical process, it's an illusion, all you need is functional binding, which computers can do.
https://t.co/ncJPHB1tF5

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Only get better from here

[Tesla @Tesla]

First Cybercab off the production line at Giga Texas

[jimmah @jamesdouma]

@ramez The smartphone is not the best camera, the best phone, or the best web browser. But it is overwhelmingly the most common manifestation of each of those, and of a 100 other common devices. In a world with scale dependent advantages generality is a superpower.

[Colin Kakama @BagOfNeurons]

Found this random nanofactory animation on YouTube. Might be the second best there is out there. First being the nanorex one ofcourse

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

Holy moly! This Helix 02 robot from @Figure_robot looks amazing at manipulating complex physical tasks (for robots) and has long time-horizon attention. It works fully autonomously at real-time speed, so smooth! A few years ago, this video would’ve been pure science fiction CGI!

[Damian Allis @somewhereville]

Ringing in 2026 with a very big/very small deal. #apm #apf #nanotech #mechanosynthesis #stm #cbn https://t.co/GYV90LeYJm