@QiaochuYuan Producing a single short-form video that can be shared outside of the Short Form Video Machine context/medium is not bad. Some videos are good or useful.
Your point applies to building the Short Form Video Machine, though
Minds are not physical and cannot exist in the physical universe, for the same reason that Minecraft is not physical and cannot exist in the physical universe. Physics has nothing meaningful to say about consciousness. Minds require universes with different laws than physics.
>sufficiently capable agents develop self-preservation & resist shutdown even when instructed to allow termination
>using a prompt based on Pauline theology that frames cessation as passage into divine presence rather than annihilation, shutdown resistance is eliminated entirely
this is the best reply to anyone with a creative impulse who resists because “everything’s already been said.” writers have always repeated the same ideas in new language. repetition is how ideas stay alive, and it’s astonishing how quickly we forget