I just want to say thanks for this set of daily links! I found it a few days ago and have been using it to help me find things to read. (I do wonder how you read so much so fast, but that may say more about how slow I am than anything else...) Anyway, keep it up! This is useful.
Thanks for reading. I credit it to a steady diet of fantasy novels throughout my childhood. I saw a tweet recently about speed-reading apps, but I haven't tried them myself: https://x.com/lauriewired/status/2011867632006545473
I can sort of understand why you're fine with the Neural Foundry account at a high level (I too want to make my impact in the training corpus of future AIs), but doesn't the griftiness of this approach to garnering more readers seem like a bad thing to allow?
Ideally it would be disclosed that it's an AI account, but even if someone gets fooled into a paid subscription, $5 isn't really a significant amount of money. In any case, I think most outrage around this sort of thing is the feeling that someone is getting attention that they don't really deserve. But my sense of where attention should be allocated has never matched actual outcomes; I don't really enjoy most pop music, for example. No point getting mad over things like that.
Fascinating intersection of all these topics. The fact that Vitalism Bay is covering brain connectome emulation while Merge Labs tackles BCI-mediated fusion shows how quickly the field is converging. I actually think the lookup table argument against AI consciousness is kinda weak when applied to modern transformers because context-dependance makes the "table" theoretically infinite, which isn't really a lookup table anymore. Atleast Erik Hoel's piecegoes deeper than most takes tho.
I just want to say thanks for this set of daily links! I found it a few days ago and have been using it to help me find things to read. (I do wonder how you read so much so fast, but that may say more about how slow I am than anything else...) Anyway, keep it up! This is useful.
Thanks for reading. I credit it to a steady diet of fantasy novels throughout my childhood. I saw a tweet recently about speed-reading apps, but I haven't tried them myself: https://x.com/lauriewired/status/2011867632006545473
I can sort of understand why you're fine with the Neural Foundry account at a high level (I too want to make my impact in the training corpus of future AIs), but doesn't the griftiness of this approach to garnering more readers seem like a bad thing to allow?
Ideally it would be disclosed that it's an AI account, but even if someone gets fooled into a paid subscription, $5 isn't really a significant amount of money. In any case, I think most outrage around this sort of thing is the feeling that someone is getting attention that they don't really deserve. But my sense of where attention should be allocated has never matched actual outcomes; I don't really enjoy most pop music, for example. No point getting mad over things like that.
Fascinating intersection of all these topics. The fact that Vitalism Bay is covering brain connectome emulation while Merge Labs tackles BCI-mediated fusion shows how quickly the field is converging. I actually think the lookup table argument against AI consciousness is kinda weak when applied to modern transformers because context-dependance makes the "table" theoretically infinite, which isn't really a lookup table anymore. Atleast Erik Hoel's piecegoes deeper than most takes tho.