Paul Bennun

Entertainment technology mainly. LA and London. No longer really posting here.

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Anyone I know at #WWDC?

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Oops @thetimes

[One Jazz @WeAreOneJazz]

Join @chrisphilips and @jeznelson , celebrating 40 years on the radio together, as they host the opening show for OneJazz, the new global 24/7 jazz station 📻. This Saturday, May 25th, at 12 PM (GMT).🤍https://t.co/63CbIaBxTT🤍

Let us know where you’re going to tune in from! 🌍

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Tweeting like it’s 2009.

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Where do folks stay at WWDC? First time I’ve had reason to go.

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@kinggizzard not that you do this but I’ve 2 x tickets for Hamburg, Wednesday, and I’m in Los Angeles. At this point, a fan can have ‘em. Do your thing?

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I have two tickets for #KGLW at the Stadtpark in Hamburg this weekend and I can’t go. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard fans in Germany, they’re going for cost price.

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Who do I know who knows someone at the @vanguardjazz ?

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@newjorg Been telling you dude

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@MikeSims1103 @TheGuildhallBar Sure.

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@PatchouliW Cough https://t.co/kn29pZMflR

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2/2 Happy: we plan to open source the Papa Engine (still the best audio VR engine in the world) and our binaural audio games.

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I had a lovely conversation with The @verge’s Vergecast about the past, present and future of audio games (video games with no video): https://t.co/kn29pZMflR

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@stuartbuck1 @fchollet Yes, but they’d actually be fresh memories not old ones (if you see what I mean), memories of memories.

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@fchollet My guy, consciousness is not a function of capability. Sophistication of environmental awareness and understanding enables 3rd parties to recognize consciousness, no more. I suggested you’re back-to-front.

Why is consciousness any more than a sense of being?

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@surfer_ec @fchollet This is interesting! Brain development is exactly the same speed—but definably human skills are all bio-cultural, and obtaining them takes longer. We have to learn culture, but our brains have the necessary features before birth.

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@fchollet A baby has all the neurons it’s going to need (if you want to be reductive and call consciousness a purely emergent property of a brain). Synaptic connections aren’t remotely a solution to the Hard Problem.

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@fchollet I challenge these definitions. You’re describing a neural default mode network which permits agency and 3rd party *social* recognition of a cultural ‘self.’ Neither requisite for awareness of existence.

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@fchollet @mariopalomera Heavens, no. Newborns are nothing but consciousness. They learn to apply that to the physical following birth, and we recognize them as ‘people.’ A regression model is information, incapable of agency—entirely different to even a newborn.

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Oh my God Twitter is buggy. Jeez. Sorry @harikunzru that tag would have made no sense.

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@perreau @alexisohanian I love them too.