Jt Gleason

Jt, cofounder of @metatheoryinc, Founding Engineering Team of Twitch. Follow our first new project @duskbreakers !

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1/ In the spirit of the end of the year, it felt appropriate to reflect a bit on the past to understand some of the flaws of the older web to see how a #web3 future could help.

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@paraschopra There is an even stronger issue. Photons have 0 proper time. They cannot "experience" anything. So even if you wanted to build "emotional experience" from the "experience of an electron", you can't do that with light.

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If you use Discord and like Mafia, we made this Activity to make playing there more fun. Would love feedback! https://t.co/r13CQgg96N

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@AdamHKlein And if you wonder why you see “3 (three) year term” in legal documents, this is why. For critical stuff like dollar amounts and time periods, insist they are written both ways and match and you never have this problem.

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@hades_lmao What are you talking about? They know Peanut made it to Pred twice all on his own. He’s playing with friends to regain his skill. If he was that far from Pred he would have caused point losses, not wins. And he did this while being stream sniped out of his ass. It’s earned.

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Supply-chain attacks move fast. So should our defaults.

pnpm has a tiny setting that can save you: minimumReleaseAge.

Set it to 1-3 days and brand-new packages can’t install immediately, even transitive deps.

Most malicious releases get caught within hours.

Add the delay.

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@Conmechorg I read the CM/CCM paper but haven't read the AoE yet. Will get back to you. My intuition is that human self-reflective consciousness is a different categorical thing than what you are labeling as general living consciousness.

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@Conmechorg I'm with you on a lot of that. I feel viruses are truly alive because their outer spikes are simply searching for a host to interact with. But modern humans mean something different when we say "our conscious selves" and it's a category difference to me.

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@camrobjones Loved your Turing Test paper! One Q, in the original paper Turing has Man/Woman pretending to be opposite gender to force cognitive load of human pretending the way AI must be pretending . Do you think that's important? Hard to make inclusive obv but any thoughts?

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@Conmechorg You have some cool ideas that are in the right direction! One thing I would say is that your definition applies to a bacteria just as well as it does a human and I think we are talking about human consciousness.

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The "do LLMs have consciousness?" debate presumes we have a solid theory of what consciousness is which would allow us to apply it to LLMs. We don't have that theory settled and hence we don't know if LLM architectures can ever obtain it or not.

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@gcolbourn @robertskmiles I don't see how you get that from this post. Rob's job is to understand how people react to risk and game theoretic outcomes to get a good AI alignment solution. Maybe he is red, but here he's playing with the framing to learn. ;)

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Everyone is given two buttons and must choose one:

Red: You get an Optimal Outcome and Blue pressers are given a Suboptimal one.
Blue: You get a Suboptimal Outcome, unless > 50% pick Blue in which case everyone gets an Optimal Outcome.
What do you pick?
Framing matters. ;)

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@totoriscreens @robertskmiles "Nothing happens to you personally" is a better phrasing of what he meant. But we all got that. But your variant is interesting as well! Gives me "I would prefer not to" vibes. :)

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@totoriscreens @robertskmiles Not a screenshot of a PS4 and I feel defrauded. :) The other button is interesting but, absent some word choices, his post is the same as the original problem. (It is missing a "to you") Other interesting mods are 75% required for Blue. It is good this went viral! -1 Doom

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@JonSnow50616798 @cinnamontoastk This is an interesting framing. At 50%, I know I have fairly good odds of surviving and saving those that don't vote on pure logic. At 75%, that chance is much lower and I'd have to make the unmoral choice. The murderer is the person who placed the box. I'd still feel like shit.

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@AustismAustin @cinnamontoastk Framed this way, Red is a fine choice. The problem is framed with an extra layer of abstraction though and picking Blue allows you to save both those who can't find the good state and those who morally refuse to press any button labeled "kill". People seem to get that thankfully.

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@cinnamontoastk So true. It's wild that some people think that 100% of humans will reason through a problem to find the Nash Equilibrium. Or that even those that understand the logic, won't pick Blue out of a moral choice to never harm others.

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@teameffujoe But the question isn't, "What is the Nash Equilibrium in this situation?" Obviously Red is the rational answer. But if this button appeared, most people understand that there are some very dumb people who would pick Blue to "save people". Hence most people will pick Blue.

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@brightyorcerf @_changxu Never really thought of 2 ^⌊log2​ N⌋as "the leading bit" before for some reason but now I can't unsee it. Thanks for that!