On Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 4:37 PM John Rose wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at 1:42 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
>
> Space, time, and matter are not fundamental. Physics tells us what we
> observe, not what is. The key property of an observer is not consciousness,
> but simply memory. Writing to
On Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 11:26 PM Matt Mahoney wrote:
>
> Exactly what test are you using to distinguish a conscious human from a
> zombie LLM passing the Turing test by using nothing more than text
> prediction?
>
Isn't it so cool that "Artificial" Intelligence is free to carve its own
path to con
wrote:
> The key property of an observer is not consciousness, but simply memory.
> Writing to memory is not time symmetric because the prior content is erased
> irreversibly. This is why time seems to us to have a direction. The
> difference between past and future is what you know.
>
👏
This
On Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 5:50 PM Keyvan M. Sadeghi
wrote:
Also planck time, can't go smaller than that on this side of space-time,
> right?
>
Time is not discrete even at the Planck level as far as we know. The
universe wrote 10^90 bits over its lifetime of 10^60 Planck time units.
We don't have a
On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at 1:42 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
> Space, time, and matter are not fundamental. Physics tells us what we
> observe, not what is. The key property of an observer is not consciousness,
> but simply memory. Writing to memory is not time symmetric because the prior
>
