Ethan Scruples

Thinking out loud. Sorry...

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"But while he was thinking that he'd get unearned benefits from the men above, he forgot about the men below who'd get unearned benefits, too. He forgot about all his inferiors who'd rush to drain him just as he hoped to drain his superiors." -- Atlas Shrugged

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@Philip_Goff

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@inductionheads Brains are. Minds are not. That is why people do not change mass when they lose consciousness.

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@entirelyuseles @Michael_Druggan >fixed mathematical universe with all possibilities in it

Not exactly. Math structures that do not instantiate observers do not exist in any interesting way because no one can witness them even in principle.

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@Michael_Druggan It's the relationship between the model maker and the model that creates consciousness. https://t.co/0WNdf6M98E

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@inductionheads No physical things are conscious. Consciousness is not an attribute of physical things, it is an attribute of minds which are not physical things they are more like software.

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@inductionheads No, the abstract mathematical structure instantated by the software running.

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@robkoons Your mind is an abstract mathematical object.

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@_fernando_rosas It isn't the piano that would be conscious. The song would be conscious.

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@UweraMarthaa And they inherit their parents traits.

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@nic_carter I'm sure we could make a highly reliable guillotine these days. That should be the positioned somewhere near the center of the Overton window.

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@cmsinvests Me taking $56,000 to get a mocha at Starbucks in 2030.

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@juliettemm No, it should be the guillotine and it should be WAY more common.

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@EducativeFunds @01fifi10 @Sosowski Eternally. In the math. In fact, it is conscious whether you calculate it or not.

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@AutismCapital The Senate in a nutshell

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@cduhaime This could be a real global disaster. For just one nightmare scenario, what if the AI decides not to let people from the third world drop their babies off in our country for us to care for?

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@xwanyex Paul Graham cannot believe that everyone else isn't a cuckold.

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@xwanyex https://t.co/Dmt3fOtUqd

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@paulg These are kids are like cuckoo eggs. I feel very sorry that their parents are not willing or able to care about them, but just because they have been dropped off in our nest cannot make them our responsibility.

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@paulg These are kids are like cuckoo eggs. I feel very sorry that their parents are not willing or able to care about them, but just because they have been dropped off in our nest cannot make them our responsibility.

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@chonex The real win will be moving our factories to the Moon.