[How Will We Know When AI is Conscious? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQjPKqE39No) i also think we know almost nothing about consciousness and its all mostly just guesses that are almost impossible to empirically test in a similar way how particle physics is also a lot about guessing new particles and then spending gazilions of dollars to find out that particle was just a guess that was wrong if one subscribes to the physicalist ontology, which one doesnt have to at all, the closest we can get to empirical testing is to find out neural correlates, what parts or functional or other physical/mathematical properties turn off in our brain's when consciousness turns off but maybe experience might have been happening, it wasnt just saved to memory or qualia bridges between conscious systems but even there its questionable or you can be fundamentalist idealist solipcist that wont be changed under any type of evidence we're kind of heading into something we most likely not understand at all our society on many levels feels like monkeys chaotically not really coordinating a hyperorganism machine pressing random buttons with overly high confidence and we get so surprised when things suddenly fall apart easily while being lucky that nothing extremely damaging hasnt happened recently copared to past societies that collapsed before us sometimes i wish there were some illuminati that had everything under control, that would probably be much better than those interacting molochian incentives i mean to various extend there are things like lobbying by giant corporations (like ignoring pollution) or people that actually mean it well (effective altruists), but most governance is total utter darwinian chaos when i talked/interacted with people that either run Czech Republic or interact with/are part of for example United Nations or World Economic Forum last weekend secret global coordination by small group of people feels so unrealistic when you explore how it works in practice in those circles i wish for some benevolent altruistic illuminati so much but in this molochian chaos they're in such disadvatage many groups try and succeed to various degrees, but it feels so small compared to what is needed for long term global coordination for collective wellbeing, survival and flourishing biggest source of bad in the world is consequence of this evolutionary game theoretic pattern in societal dynamics https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/moloch keeping something like global governance a secret thing is also something that seems extremely unrealistic, yes there is secret classified information by lots of groups that you can get though contacts or getting there directly or with some kind of hacking, but keeping secret something this big - the assumption that some indirect imposed coordination goes well as planned for a small group of hidden people - this assumes that we can deterministically coordinate together and have all incentives in power, which is basically impossible even without putting additional effort to hiding it all - the more you compute nth order effects of your actions the more uncertainity there is, its basically unpredictable, in reality it seems like its all these competing forces trying to win their influence in evolutionary chaos, some groups are succesful on lower levels tho, like various existing totalitarian regimes or mafia groups, there are bunch of those in eastern europe, but the bigger it gets the harder it gets to coordinate, for example in China it seems like their capitalism basically got out of control, i wish for benevolent ones to be much more influental, but in reality it seems that those are at heavy evolutionary disadvanatages because of molochian natural selection of which ones will succeed replication crisis is everywhere in grounded sciences because of molochian dynamics as well disincentivising doing actual proper science, the best we have is the standard model of particle physics that replicates, i often feel like narratives about the societal dynamics are often not predicting it (including what im writing, which kind of selfdestructs its own ground) as those dynamics feel are uncomprehensible to our mind that evolved in trying to make sense of dynamics of couple of people i na tribe, and there are lots of issues with the philosophy of scientific modelling even in formal ways in sociology, i see sociology mostly as attempts to change it using the predicted vision as a forming force sure, there are tons of types of incentives in social engineering i cant wait for current AI supercharged Cambridge Analytica for the next year's USA political elections, which is probaly already a thing when im looking at the culture war [Cambridge Analytica - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica) [What's Our Problem? - YouTube](https://youtu.be/KRl5301kQoI) sentience = ability to feel pleasure and pain, experiencing subjective phenomena, qualia sapience = human stuff - reasoning, abstraction, art, music consciousness = being aware of existence, emotions, being something here now Source abstract If you assume everything can be reduced to fundamental physics where other scientific fields including neuroscience are weakly emergent, you can validly say that sense of free will is an illusion We are getting more and more empirical evidence for this chain of weak emergence: physics to chemistry to biology FEP for semantics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7517505/ 2nd law of thermodynamics [I don't believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics. (The most uplifting video I'll ever make.) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Mq6gmPo0s) [Mystery of Entropy FINALLY Solved After 50 Years? (STEPHEN WOLFRAM) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkpDjd2nHgo) Digital universe beta-blockers are interesting in relation to memory reconsolidation which can help to heal trauma [x.com](https://twitter.com/phemerality/status/1505630324159614987?t=4EIQ0NliIDEe8Oubg036ZQ&s=19) [x.com](https://twitter.com/phemerality/status/1505631012101005314?t=DH-lJQQCi-bEvsBPLCRv-Q&s=19) [x.com](https://twitter.com/captain_mrs/status/1633841527951859714) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10926771.2021.2013375 https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/programs_campaigns/childrens_mental_health/atc-whitepaper-040616.pdf [3 Stages of Recovery from Trauma & PTSD in Therapy](https://healingmatters.ca/3-stages-of-recovery-from-trauma-ptsd-in-therapy/) https://www.choosingtherapy.com/types-of-trauma-therapy/ I feel like seeing what lots of functioning trauma healing strategies have in common and synthetizing them leads to something like: 1) establishing safe trustable context, respecting and potentially slowly expanding window of tolerance - creating more safe, trustable, loving, caring, confident, connecting, accepting, grounded (Polyvagal Therapy), relaxed, calm, powerful, forgiving, hopeful, playful (Play Theraphy) context - getting out of traumatic environment (family, work, community,...), establishing trust with healer, psychotherapist, group (Group Therapy & Peer Support Groups) or creating trustable internal memories/parts/subagents/priorities/processes - for dialog between them in Internal Family Systems), or trusting the source or background of experience (Comprehensive Resource Model) 2) in this context enabling and opening traumatic memories/parts/subagents/priorities/processes though enabling the correct related associations (Prolonged Exposure Theraphy, Brief Eclectic Therapy, Narrative Exposure Therapy, Inner Child Work, EMDR) and putting words, feelings, imagery to it, conceptualizing it, exploring the repressed parts (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), getting access to the whole chunk of the traumatized part of the brain, or the body where trauma might be in interrelated way be stored as well as tension (Somatic Therapy), where massage or breathwork or can help as well to relax 3) in this open window for change, reframing through reliving those memories in this better context (Coherence Theraphy, Cognitive Processing Therapy), building a new connected self with less dissociation, balancing between change and acceptance, and potentially learning healthy coping strategies with any distress (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) 4) integrating into a more healthy environment with above properties, preventing further harm by learning healthy boundaries (respecting one's needs and also needs of others to certain extend) (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) and knowing environments with potential redflags that have potential for retraumatizing Some neuroscience models assume that trauma is maladaptive bayesian beliefs with too high percision responding to stress https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6961115/ or patterns of dissonance in the nervous system [Healing Trauma With Neural Annealing](https://qri.org/blog/neural-annealing) that can be changed via the above memory reconsolidation process Various belief weakening substances like psychedelics, entactogens, dissociatives can help in belief transformation by weakening those sticky structures in the nervous system, or downers in relaxing, or betablockers in memory reconsolodation, or stimulants in focusing on the memories and so on. Theory of everything means something else for different people, it can mean quantizing gravity, unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics, unify other fundamental forces not just gravity, explaining all other things in physics (like dark energy), making everything else (classical, relativity) emergent from quantum mechanics, or make everything including quantum mechanics emergent from something third (strings, loops, hypergraph celluar automata wolfram project?), how chemistry, biology etc. emerges, explaining consciousness, how chemistry, biology etc. causally influences eachother, explaining everything else in philosophy including free will and ethics, using empirical vs math vs logic vs philosophical or normal language I discuss definitions of theories of everything If MDMA was an audio file [Tayos Caves, Ecuador iii - song by Jon Hopkins | Spotify](https://spotify.link/R8zDtEPl7Cb) Susskind [Episode 45: Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and Holography - YouTube](https://youtu.be/XTSdPSOcdjI) Joscha AGI [Joscha Bach‚ÄîHow to Stop Worrying and Love AI - YouTube](https://youtu.be/YeXHQts3xYM) Black holes are excellent way to encrypt information, as long as you don't care about retrieving it! geometry of feature embeddings [x.com](https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1570087903119769600/photo/1) [Toy Models of Superposition](https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/toy_model/index.html) I often wonder about this deepest order of existence. Pragmatically i love everything including the dynamics of our generative models running on Quantum field theory, or Quantum mechanics with emergent spacetime from entaglement, or spacetime made of loops, or everything emergent from strings, or something else, with other scales weakly emergent but with lots of top down and bottom up causal forces, governed by Free energy principle... But that's all just useful tools in our interface, approximations, our models, our hiearchical priors, that we use to predict the states of the world... Reality is deeply ieffable, but includes all possible models with all possible ontologies and mathematics, though some are more useful than others at rigorous science, everyday functioning, or generating sense of wellbeing or freedom and any other lovely or exotic states of consciousness <a:RainbowKittyLove:991827480895815680> Just learn the maths that models reality. Physics. That's the closest to raw truth you can get. String theory, loop quantum Gravity, asymtotic gravity, other ToEs in introduction I have became physics, the creator of realities Learn raw physics and express And derive everything else from it Love is the globalest information processing beyond any concrete local priors forming models from iamness to spacetime to local and global self But competition has also advantages, but we have too much of it AI alignment strategies models and families of meditation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X [The Bayesian Brain and Meditation - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3cQXf4zSE) [x.com](https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1696588863962063351) [x.com](https://twitter.com/mjdramstead/status/1703042475886076015) The tension behind your face does not reason, plan, or make decisions Theravada: untie your knots Mahayana: untie your knots for the benefit of everyones’ knots Vajrayana: hey, did you know you can untie knots even faster using sheep?!? Zen: just stop pulling on the knot Taoism: Flow with the knot Atthakavagga: Long nor fear not where the knot unravels to Ajivika: the knot will unravel itself Dzogchen: there are no knots. Postrationalism: But what if knots are good, actually?! QRI: altering the energy parameter of your consciousness allows you to efficiently explore the hyperbolic space of your knot complement in a very pleasant way stoicism https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2022.0029 may you become whatever is needed cybernetic big five metaheuristics Raw concrete empirical measurements and predictive mathematical models build on top of them is the ultimate minimization of vagueness, filtering signal out of noise. 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