I'd say that falls under dualism, no? A determinist would heavily disagree - how can you get to two end states with an identical starting condition? To me, theories like those sound more like a gimmick than anything else. Would love to be disproven though

Edit - thinking about it a little more, I'm more sure that that would fall under dualism. A splitting timeline would need a definition of an option, a decision. If i choose ball A over B, that's obviously a decision, but If i let go of a rock, it falling to the ground is not a decision. It will always fall. Where is the line? Is a synthetic neural network with just three neurons making a decision when it goes through a computation cycle? How about organic neural networks with just three neurons? Point I'm getting at, calling a decision a decision is more of a question of being human as opposed to true circumstances.

Personally, I'm a hardcore determinist. The Universe has concrete laws that cannot be broken, and I adhere by them. I can't not! Facing a decision may make me feel like I'm in control, whereas i am in fact not.

Religions / metaphysical beliefs stem from frustration of not understanding something. We don't know all laws of the universe yet, and some people cope by making up their own. If you let go of the frustration at uncertainty, being a determinist is a given - We don't understand consciousness, and we might never.

I am at a loss when it comes to AI rights, though. I can not, in good faith, have a well thought-out opinion given my belief. What do you think?

Take a hike. Just because there's a corporate entity behind an AI division doesn't mean it's garbage. Galactica was a very cool experiment, produces SOTA performances in a ton of usecases, just succumbed to internet trolls and false usecases. Meta AI is cutting edge.

Of course this is not magically enabling fdvr. First step to encoding neural patterns is understanding how to decode them, that's what i'd like to stress here. Haven't seen any works this coherent, and I'm excited!

If you're into FDVR, this is huge. The first step to artificial stimuli streamed directly to your brain is understanding how we interpret them in the first place. While the nature of neural networks may not bring us, as humans, close to intellectually understanding the brain, this obviously shows an insane degree of "comprehension". Perhaps the tool we need to decode our brains simply are artificial ones.

from here: "Galactica models are trained on a large corpus comprising more than 360 millions in-context citations and over 50 millions of unique references normalized across a diverse set of sources. This enables Galactica to suggest citations and help discover related papers."

Always remember that the outputs of a language model are however, very prone to hallucination. I would not trust its outputs.

let me know how it ends up doing!

which is what the "generate more" button is for. One click & it extends by 400 tokens. Do that until it's done

Well, you sure know how to time a reddit post. This released two hours ago

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True. Its AI dept might launch it into the stratosphere sometime.

Same company. Their AI department is stellar, the other... project... is tainting its reputation somewhat.

This one's different, given it's by AI that shows no signs of stopping, in a field that was believed to be irreplacable. That bullet hits different from job replacement. This is job purging, with huge ramifications.

Yep. There's people depending on art as a job, and through the market of commissions not being nearly as lucrative as it was before, they are losing their dream job. That deserves sympathy.

However dehumanizing this next point might sound, it is extremely important. Everyone must realize AI is on its way, and let go of the solid societal belief that labor is essential to living a comfortable life. It might no longer be so in the (near) future. Artists are simply the first to take this irreversable bullet; and that's causing some incredible exposure.

Noone wants the twitter algorithm. Thousands wanted the NovelAI model. Motivated people can do anything

extremely unlikely and too pessimistic. It takes one person to leak a model, one group of people motivated enough - we'll get it sooner or later.

additionally i enjoyed Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

obvious: The singularity is near by Ray Kurzweil

not gonna crush your dreams, because i will make it my life's mission to make that happen!

whats wrong with them pointing out a misleading claim?

To surpass human-level intelligence you need human-level intelligence. No getting around the definitions of the singularity

Every passing day I am more tempted to create the international Party of the Future

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