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@raph.bsky.social

colorless blue skeets sleep furiously landmarks: - TfT, future of code, PL - spatial / social software - embeddings, LLMs, NeRFs, NCAs, diffusion - prompting as bci - bio, consciousness, qualia

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the universe probably lends itself in some way to human conscious experience, as in our conscious experience is not an arbitrary construction but somehow easier for the universe to create than other ones. emotions & sight w/ optical illusions might be low hanging fruit

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writing out my take on why people who support the recent terror attacks because "gazans live in horrible conditions" are wrong to do so:

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writing out my take on why people who support the recent terror attacks because "gazans live in horrible conditions" are wrong to do so:

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more thoughts, on why comparing this to indigenous struggle is ridiculous and what i hear when people say they're "not anti-semitic"

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@raph.bsky.social

Unlikely that digital computers experience relevant levels of consciousness Computers are v constrained physically. Consciousness dust. If we calculated GPT4 output by hand, the only experience there is ours (relevant) and the pen+paper (irrelevant). Not "GPT4" / "information processing"

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if GPT4 experienced "relevant consciousness" that'd imply re-doing a multiply at the end of your hand calculated output would make GPT4 re-experience whatever it experienced. No— it's just what you experience, and what the pen and paper experience. GPUs ~don't feel.

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Yamir Moreno
@ymoreno.bsky.social

Just out "Robustness and complexity of directed and weighted metabolic hypergraphs" (arxiv.org/abs/2310.03623). We propose a new hypergraph-based representation of metabolic networks that captures HOI among metabolites and reactions, preserving all essential information.

arxiv.orgRobustness and complexity of directed and weighted metabolic hypergraphsMetabolic networks are probably among the most challenging and important biological networks. Their study provides insight into how biological pathways work and how robust a specific organism is...
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conscious {point, fuzz, trajectory} vibrations flowing through it a jazz, smooth, chaotic, sharp, mellow hertz, terahertz, low amp, high amp what's the shape of a vibration through a point? what about a point-looking-at-a-{point,line,volume,hands} every shape, infinite res-and-dim?

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conscious {point, fuzz, trajectory} vibrations flowing through it a jazz, smooth, chaotic, sharp, mellow hertz, terahertz, low amp, high amp what's the shape of a vibration through a point? what about a point-looking-at-a-{point,line,volume,hands} every shape, infinite res-and-dim?

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Replying to @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com

Words are an extremely lossy projection of reality Demanding legibility is telling people to exist in a way that minimizes that loss. To conform to lives that can be easily fully described in a few words. It’s anti-cozy, anti-emergence, anti-life

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@bsky.app

Replying to @bsky.app

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Welcome @stephenwolfram.bsky.social!! 😊 a cool recent post of his - minds, ai images, perturbations - vast interconcept space - {points,movement} in concept/rulial space - mind2mind concept transfer/loss - symbols - attractors, denoising, feature vectors, latent space ops - diffusion vs automata

writings.stephenwolfram.comGenerative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien MindsAI and the ruliad in the Wolfram Physics Project provide a new way to consider how alien minds might perceive the world. Stephen Wolfram explains how this artificial neuroscience experiment works.
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My custom instacart usability script - Gives sponsored items low opacity - Gives out of stock items a pink background - Clicks sort by price automatically on every page load Most interesting thing here imo is just how much sponsored items ordinarily completely mess up sort-by-price

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Took apart a speaker and it was full of fiberglass Probably secures the speaker, prevents case buzzing, is fire resistant Puny glass rods that go everywhere and permanently lodge themselves in your body. What a concerning material. I put on gloves and wiped stuff down a ton.

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do other people see these hyperbolic-cell-like squiggles when they scrunch up their hand and look through the aperture? I find it easiest to see when I make an okay-hand aperture then slowly narrow the diam to ~2mm, right by me eye, other eye cupped closed

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amazingly captures a hyperbolic-bio vibe looks like the countlessly-many squiggles i see, from my eye or my mind, when i curl up my hand like this 👌 or this 🤏 + look through it at a blank white wall with good ambient light as I make the hole / distance between my fingers get smaller

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sometimes I can see veins on the edges and I feel like those might be on/around my retina or somewhere else in the eye, (idk, have to learn more about eyes)

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@raph.bsky.social

domain architecture domain landlord, tenants, sublets domain landscape design domain "on this site" plaque domain property tax domain estate tax domain pillaging domain governance domain title domain protest, revolt, revolution domain military domain intelligence agency domain empire, commonwealth

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Ryan Moulton
@moultano.bsky.social

Nothing makes you appreciate the social value of your job like seeing your org screw something up and then watching the whole world complain about it. "I am sorry you are having that problem I will try to type faster."

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Replying to @adampknave.com

just because you are willing to burn the library of Alexandria because the books are free doesn't alter the fact that existing copyright laws are not protecting creators but rather corporate interests look at internet archive lawsuits over archives of out of print 78s Who benefits from this & why?

rollingstone.comRecord Labels File $412 Million Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet ArchiveSeveral music labels have sued Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its 'Great 78 Project,' which comprises works from late vintage acts.

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Carl T. Bergstrom
@carlbergstrom.com

Absolutely terrible news. Last year there was a total breeding failure at 4 of 5 studied emperor penguin colonies due to the breakup of sea-ice. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

nature.comRecord low 2022 Antarctic sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins - Communi...Four out of five emperor penguin colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica experienced breeding failure in spring 2022 due to unprecedented sea ice loss, according to an analysis of satellite ima...
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tis sidewalk christmas season in boston. i have picked up - 12 blocks of wood - 11 cubbies worth of clothing - 10 hangers - 9 questionably dirty things - 8 pots for plants - 7 shelves - 6 neighbors' names - 5 nice bags - 4 mirrors - 3 kitchen appliances - 2-cassette player - 1 really massive CRT tv

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non-exhaustive, slightly fudged numbers, over the past two weeks 🤓 and I wasn't taking stuff willy-nilly, just things I thought I might actually use

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my friend who does uni research on the bible says probs not said this passage is for an audience who knows what's up, obtuse wording reflects confusion of people in it said 18th/19th c my thoughts here were more popular but reflected biases moreso than what John meant here just sharing his take 🤓

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sounds like he was just trying to describe atoms?!! given language constraints of the time you kinda just had to know him to get what he meant and then after he died it just became an entirely different thing ? https://www.bibleinsight.com/supper.html