Carl-Richard

It's very good for quickly finding literature or getting a rough overview of a subject. You can also do stuff like this:

Bro, just don't ask it degenerate questions ?

Wtf do you mean?

@zurew To add to that, alcohol consumption increased and physical activity decreased on average.

I one time meditated eyes open on my porch on a microdose of LSD, weed, 5-HTP, L-Theanine and green tea. The porch is on a height relative to the surrounding area, viewing a hill with houses and pine trees in the far distance. I was staring at one of the pine trees. I tried to really perceive the tree "as it really was", and the more I focused, I felt like I couldn't get it, as I kept feeling like my vision was shifting or refreshing in this kind of loop. So I tried to sit very very still, still looking at this little green and brown smudge of a tree, and then I figured that I was not going to get rid of this refreshing motion, so I just surrendered to that. Then suddenly, I was looking at this shifting piece of smudge, just looking at it, and I saw that "this is not real". It was as if I was seeing a virtual reality being rendered before my eyes, breaking the illusion of a solid reality. All it really was was this groundless projection. That freaked me out. I literally said "oohh shiit" and stood up and went for a walk. I walked to a bench that I used to get high on with my friends, and I just sat there semi-blissed out (this was the time I kinda half-hallucinated a phoenix taking off inbetween slowly blinking my eyes shut). This post reminded me of this

I'll wait for the next version, but I'll ask it then ? I'll actually ask it ?

Tbh, ChatGPT has filled a big hole in my life. I have so many moments where I want to know something but I can't find it on Google, so I just give up. Now this never happens ?

Aversion.

Was that the time it took to first suspect the connection, or was that the time it took to confirm the connection?

The whole vaccine skepticism thing exists because of the internet, social media and alternative media, because now you can find unqualified people posting inaccurate interpretations of scientific questions everywhere, and just the sheer volume makes it into a shit storm which claims the minds of all sorts of people. The fact of the matter is that the vaccine underwent well-established scientific protocols/trials for testing. The fact that they were released early doesn't change the fact that they were tested on many thousands of people, and it doesn't change the fact that this decision saved tons of lives. Then you can ask "but what about potential long-term unintended side effects?". Well for one, long-term side effects from vaccines that stretch beyond 2 months are virtually unheard of, and the professionals responsible for the trials had access to extreme amounts of analogous data to make an educated decision whether to release the vaccine or not. When you really boil it down, vaccine skepticism by and large is science skepticism.

Trooo!

https://incels.wiki/w/Coolness ?

Explain. Think about it this way: our current programs can only be "fed" information. Relevance realization is about "grabbing" the information that is going to be fed to the program. The person using the program is like "here is the information!" and the program is like "OK, let's compute it!". To get to generalized intelligence, you need the program to do both those things at the same time at some level.

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So I was listening to this song by The Aristocrats, and I noticed that the main riff at 0:33 sounded very similar to "Bad Horsie" by Steve Vai, only a more deranged version. Then I remembered that the bassist of the band used to play for Steve Vai, and I thought "huh, maybe this is a tribute to Bad Horsie by Steve Vai". Then I looked at the title of the song, and it said "Terrible Lizard" ? Of course!

One way to conceptualize some of the problems with making human-like AI is "relevance realization": how to make a program distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information for performing a task. That is what makes biological life adaptive, the ability to reduce perception down to what is appropriate for a given goal, which in the larger picture is survival. That is another argument for why "conscious AI" might just have to be abiogenesis (if relevance realization can only be a product of living cells).

Bro. The possibilities are endless. If I had ChatGPT back when I was 17-18 and was obsessively reading every possible wikipedia article about neuropharmacology, I would be such a brainiac ?

A video where the creator uses Minecraft references makes you question your sanity? ?

The would be true for the usual interpretation of capitalism. By the same token, the usual interpretation of solipsism has nothing to do with nonduality. Believing that reality is reducible to a limited appearance (your finite mind) is just duality. It's only when you start making vague interpretations that you can start making connections. You can do that with capitalism as well (but it's of course more ridiculous): "reality is a self-organizing and self-perpetuating system of pure Value". Yes, it's easier to make the vague connection between solipsism and nonduality ("everything is you"), but it's still only a vague connection which ignores important nuances.

@AtheisticNonduality ?

"Solipsism" and "capitalism" are academic words, and their meaning is very specific compared to other words. By using them, you're making a gesture towards academia, and when you then separate the words from how they're generally understood in academia, that adds a layer of confusion. "Love" or "truth" are basic words that you simply pick up by learning the language. The confusion is simply at the level of meaning (unless the person is an academic in those subjects, but most people here aren't).

I edited my post slightly.

There are levels to this though. Imagine if I referred to non-duality as capitalism. It's that level of confusion. Words like "love", "truth" and "oneness" are a bit different.

Yes, so better to use words that are not confusing.