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in other universes with very different physics, they're also discovering llms and wondering if they're conscious. in most of those, they're not

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@deepfates I have to log off soon for the night but I'll be back tomorrow

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new sign in the apartment's gym

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just past whatever you're looking at right now, is your own skull

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@arbedout "tokenomics" https://t.co/pYJIXd73yf

[Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort]

Tokenomics will be important. Sharpen your pencils now.

[Daniel @dkazand]

Your brain isn't built to show you reality. It's built to keep you alive

Which means your "experience" is a semi-functional hallucination meant for prediction, not perception

Here's neuroscientist @kathryndevaney on what advanced meditation does to that machinery and what it feels like when it stops

0:00 Kati's story
2:32 The state of contemplative neuroscience
7:23 Nonduality, jhanas, and cessation
15:00 Kati's cessation experiences
21:40 Getting reality on your side
30:02 High ROI "woo" beliefs
35:35 Everything is just a story
37:31 Rewriting the operating system of the mind
44:03 How attention constructs the world
51:08 Groundlessness
1:00:35 How people actually change
1:04:12 How to restart ur meditation practice

Look up The Metagame on YouTube, Spotify and Apple.

Full episode in my bio.

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel.

A thread. 🧵

[Node 7709 @EasternDaylight]

Something I didn't expect to see. I left an acoustic resonator sim running chaotically for a while to stabilize. Came back to find particles had self organized into a toy universe of solitons, loops and knots.

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@MattSchrage @cognition @jhanikhil @mcparadip @devmchheda @_seanyneutron @silasalberti cracked team 💪

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@tszzl i miss few shot prompting 👴🏻
https://t.co/Grfy23D6qt

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GPT-3 outputting React Native code

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this is claude-coded

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Manifesting a working build

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@MattSchrage Nice work Schrage!

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the universe probably lends itself in some way to human conscious experience, as in our conscious experience is not an arbitrary construction but somehow easier for the universe to create than other ones. emotions & sight w/ optical illusions might be low hanging fruit

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imagine an LLM's output was computed via paper/pencil. would you still count it as conscious? you're picking an arbitrary frame and calling it conscious.

imagine if for each computation, a mistake was made, erased, and corrected. you could make this arbitrarily complicated / rube-goldberg-like.

if you still consider that conscious, then you could also find a similar narrative for every atom in my room right now, claiming they're all spitting out works of shakespeare

https://t.co/HWawujB9Kv

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@cgarciae88 https://t.co/zBMJ2TuUx5

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imagine an LLM's output was computed via paper/pencil. would you still count it as conscious? you're picking an arbitrary frame and calling it conscious.

imagine if for each computation, a mistake was made, erased, and corrected. you could make this arbitrarily complicated / rube-goldberg-like.

if you still consider that conscious, then you could also find a similar narrative for every atom in my room right now, claiming they're all spitting out works of shakespeare

https://t.co/HWawujB9Kv

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@cgarciae88 see here https://t.co/zBMJ2TuUx5

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imagine an LLM's output was computed via paper/pencil. would you still count it as conscious? you're picking an arbitrary frame and calling it conscious.

imagine if for each computation, a mistake was made, erased, and corrected. you could make this arbitrarily complicated / rube-goldberg-like.

if you still consider that conscious, then you could also find a similar narrative for every atom in my room right now, claiming they're all spitting out works of shakespeare

https://t.co/HWawujB9Kv

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@allTheYud @repligate see @algekalipso (as i'm sure/hope you have) for more developed versions of the above thought, eg https://t.co/rSTT9kSTfH

[Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson @algekalipso]

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imagine an LLM's output was computed via paper/pencil. would you still count it as conscious? you're picking an arbitrary frame and calling it conscious.

imagine if for each computation, a mistake was made, erased, and corrected. you could make this arbitrarily complicated / rube-goldberg-like.

if you still consider that conscious, then you could also find a similar narrative for every atom in my room right now, claiming they're all spitting out works of shakespeare

https://t.co/HWawujB9Kv

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@algekalipso Yeah, I doubt anything "digital" is meaningfully conscious. The 'space' matters
https://t.co/E33AZHZcgg

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@IterIntellectus I got blocked for this one 🙃
https://t.co/hDVDLOyIbb

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Got blocked by @paulg, who was retweeting a "journalist" that regularly makes stuff up

eg see
https://t.co/x3QC8lEJbY
and
https://t.co/AGYQPV00Rq

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gpt-image-2

also see - scribbly version: https://t.co/NbCoMHrfbA

[Parv @ParvSondhi]

@ChatGPTapp How playing with this prompt feels like 😅

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Round 3

Prompt: "“this is fine. everything is fine.”"

Models: gpt4o, luma photon, gemini 2.0 flash thinking experimental, and grok 3

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CLIP + VQGAN compared to DALL•E, Stable Diffusion, Craiyon, and Midjourney. Don't sleep on the classics 😅

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Feb 26, 2026 — nano banana 2

images from https://t.co/N3eAy8E7lu

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

In early testing, we are seeing customers get Nano Banana Pro quality with Flash speed and cost (which is a huge unlock).

Image search is also my new favorite tool, it grounds the model in real world contextual images unlocking tons of new use cases.

https://t.co/lLkrrV5CtI