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I suspect it will go further: imagine giving an mp3 to LLM to clean up some noise. It detects it was illegally downloaded from youtube, deletes it and automatically fines you via attached credit card.

The real alignment problem they are trying to solve is: how can I make this super smart AI follow my orders.

The "nested reality" twist was already used by the "13th floor" movie so perhaps they intentionally choose a different direction.

Many companies put LLM chatbots on their websites and let them hallucinate at will. General recklessness is very much in spirit of this tech.

Interesting, if ultrasound effects the brain, then maybe specific pattern could be used to non-destructively stimulate it?

Oh, the irony of writing an angry post about benefits of anger.

Many open source efforts seem to belong to this category as well.

Some time ago I stumbled onto a bizzare "Peter Thiel on Political Theology" Tyler Cowen episode. Of Course Cowen is on this list.

If this argument was as solid as you say, then all routine checks would be pointless.

I don't know about traditional blood testing, but a permanent implant which checks HR, pressure, glucose, temperature & oxidation would be pretty useful, not necessarily to diagnose anything, but to provide data for doctor when patient has actual symptomps.

Coal margarine, this protein powder and some vitamins, I wonder how long human could survive on such "diet".

Not to mention that you can also ask LLM to summarize any of his books, and get the gist.

Reading an entire book may be more beneficient for habit forming, but most readers probably don't care about this.

What makes us conscious anyway? As I write this sentence, my brain generates words and contracts specific muscles in my hands to type, but I don't really understand how. I'm just aware that it happens. Apparently I'm no aware of every single neuronal activity, so what I am aware of?

I agree about definition confusion. I like to define consciousness as "capability to suffer".

Can cow/dog/spider suffer? - very important question, even if not answerable.

Yeah, it's not immediately obvious, but if we created perfect utopia where conditions are ideal, perfectly matched for given individual, heritability would be 0%.

It's intriguing that some parts of brains are conscious, some are not. What's the difference?