[really wish you could indicate the topic of conversation, as I don’t have time to watch all the videos linked on these sites, but I expect I’d be interested enough in at least some of them …]

Mostly a matter of the 2 bottom loops, the ability to change beliefs (learn) and change observations (act).

Hopefully Sima3 or 4 will be able to operate besides other agents, recognize the goals those agents have, and cooperate.

Guess what? youtu.be/zpXvEhl2YXE?...

I accidentally do this about every 1.5 years. It’s kinda like the feeling you get after going to confession.

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[no, really]

Celebrate the spectrum, I think.

Also why Trump wants to end mail-in voting.

Actually, I think the issue is that it’s only available on twitter, not here on Bluesky. Here’s the twitter link:
x.com/johannesklei...
[we’ll see if this works]

Note: A process that does “A AND B” counts as “A COPY” if you only care about A. If you do care about B (B is antimatter?) then it can count as “B COPY” and/or “A AND B”. Question is do you care about the mechanism (B). If not, then “A” is multirealizable. “A AND C” also counts as “A COPY”.

A computation is a physical process organized to process information (M.I.). The basic operations (AND, OR, COPY, NOT) generate output with appropriate M.I., either similar (COPY), inverted (NOT), or some combination (AND/OR). The output of a process w/ antimatter will have M.I. w/ the antimatter.

I’m probably being a little idiosyncratic with my use of computation, but here …
Physical interaction generates mutual information. This is the source of all information. Mutual information is an affordance. If A has Mut.Info. w/ B, a system can respond to A by responding to B.

A computation …
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Um … is there another link to “here”?

This seems compatible w/ consciousness as pattern recognition, but how do you determine a “subject” has emerged?

Panprotopsychism, on the other hand …

I haven’t disabled them, but I don’t answer them. I’ve only had one so far that actually left voicemail. I think they may be learning.

[asking as a non-neuroscience amateur philosopher of mind …]
This paper from Max Bennett (www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...) suggests there are (at least) 2 functional sub-populations in Layer 5: L5a-RS and L5b-IB. Do we know if the “express lane” goes to one, the other, or both?

I see people talking about “using children as political leverage”. The word that came to my mind is … hostages.