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I'm not positive I'm understanding your term naturalistic but no neuroscientist would say "we are just neurons". Similarly no neuroscientist would deny that neurons are a fundamental part of consciousness and thought.

You have plenty of complex chemical processes interacting with your brain constantly - the neurons there aren't all of who you are.

But without the neurons there: you aren't anyone anymore. You cease to live. Destroying some of those neurons will change you fundamentally.

There's no disputing this.

Or speech that hurts his feelings

Work gave me a 16gb laptop for Android development.

It took up to 20 minutes to incrementally compile.

They eventually bumped me up to 32gb when I complained enough that my swap file was 20gb.

Suddenly incremental compiles are <2 min

but it isn’t so clear cut

It's demonstrably several orders of magnitude less complex. That's mathematically clear cut.

Where is the cutoff on complexity required?

Philosophical question without an answer - We do know that it's nowhere near the complexity of the brain.

both our brains and most complex AI are pretty much black boxes.

There are many things we cannot directly interrogate which we can still describe.

It’s impossible to say this system we know vanishingly little about is/isn’t dundamentally the same as this system we know vanishingly little about, just on a differentscale

It's entirely possible to say that because we know the fundamental structures of each, even if we don't map the entirety of eithers complexity. We know they're fundamentally different - Their basic behaviors are fundamentally different. That's what fundamentals are.

The first AGI will likely still have most people saying the same things about it, “it isn’t complex enough to approach a human brain.”

Speculation but entirely possible. We're nowhere near that though. There's nothing even approaching intelligence in LLMs. We've never seen emergent behavior or evidence of an id or ego. There's no ongoing thought processes, no rationality - because that's not what an LLM is. An LLM is a static model of raw text inputs and the statistical association thereof. Any "knowledge" encoded in an LLM exists entirely in the encoding - It cannot and will not ever generate anything that wasn't programmed into it.

It's possible that an LLM might represent a single, tiny, module of AGI in the future. But that module will be no more the AGI itself than you are your cerebellum.

But it doesn’t need to equal a brain to still be intelligent.

First thing I think we agree on.

Who gives a fuck about a tiny patch of forest when compared to reducing climate emissions?

I fucking hate Cars. I want them out of our cities and out of our lives. They're shackles and chains around our social fabric.

But they're never going entirely away and every gas car we replace with an electric car is a categorical success. We should make building massive battery plants cheaper.

Because you can't drink water if you're dead and no forest will compare in carbon impact per square foot when weighed against the reductions that electric vehicles bring us.

We can replant forests once this catastrophe is handled but we're in red fucking alert and any progress against gas cars is good progress. Damn the short term consequences.

Federated Stack Exchange isn't harder for AI to eat. If anything it's easier.

It's open source and can be restricted to private followers. If you self host it'd be as private as possible for an Instagram clone

This is exactly what I'm talking about when I argue with people who insist that an LLM is super complex and totally is a thinking machine just like us.

It's nowhere near the complexity of the human brain. We are several orders of magnitude more complex than the largest LLMs, and our complexity changes with each pulse of thought.

The brain is amazing. This is such a cool image.

Nobody organizes sit-ins and protests for the homeless... Because when they have nobody showed up.

Up to 45k people die of homelessness every year in the USA. Nobody cares about them. It infuriates me.

If you find a better place to discover music please lmk (no sarcasm)

Their discovery sucks lately and I hate it.

Kalih Choc are great. I like that plan.

Thanks for the clarification on reputable vendors! I've always wondered where the right place to buy lithium was.