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Start a viral campaign for iphone with mechanical switches


It is not yet like meshtastic in that. Rnode is more of a lora modem than a lora server. There is a micro recticlum project but not out yet.

Ahh, yes. I see that now. I appreciate the correction.

I set up a rayhunter, not so worried about myself, but more an early warning if something was to change in the area

Reference in case anyone's interested: https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter

I believe you need an activate sim in order for it to work correctly, is that correct?

No, its a new form of alchemy that turns electricity into hype. The technical jargon is more.of.a thieves cant to help identity other conmen to one another


that's a strange way to spell "no, I didn't understand the paper"


Perhaps someone who does understand the paper will kindly make it a bit clearer for those of who get a bit lost.


Honestly why I would really apprechiate something like this, hn is not an explain platform.

For sure, some words or feedback on what you understood (did you get it right) etc. yeah.

But otherwise, if you do not understand a research paper, you have to do the same hard work as everyone else. Sitting down, going through it paragraph by paragraph and learning it. This takes massive time.

and for a high level overview, chatgpt and co are really really good getting papers.


Try get over your ai hate.

If you need help getting more out of ai, you can use chatgpt and co to go through papers and let yourself eli5 paragarphs. 1blue3brown also has a few great videos about transformer and how they work


Ideologues usually aren't great at primary source understanding/reasoning, hence why they end up with such strong opinions.


This breaks my heart, software modeling orbital mechanics is something I do for fun from time to time.


It begins!


They eat the creatures who want to eat you. Like beautiful guardian angels


That's how I feel about dragonflies. Spiders are, to me, equally interesting but less enjoyable. I tolerate a few spiders in our house, but not in bedrooms or the kitchen.


I think there are countless examples of worse failures by organisations that meet your criteria for far more valuable assets than some free apps.


You appear to be a proper alchemist, but you can't support an argument of understanding if there is no definition of understanding that isn't circular. If you want to believe the friendly voice really understands you, we have a word for that, faith. The skeptic sees the interactions with a chatbot as a statistical game that shows how uninteresting (e.g. predictable) humans and our stupid language are. There are useful gimmicks coming out like natural language processing, for low risk applications, but this form of AI pseudoscience isn't going to survive, but it will take some time for research to catch up to understanding how to describe the falsehoods of contemporary AI toys


Understanding is the thing that happens when your neurons coalesce into a network of signaling and processing such that it empowers successful prediction of what happens next. This powers things like extrapolation, filling in missing parts of perceived patterns, temporal projection, and modeling hidden variables.

Understanding is the construction of a valid model. In biological brains, it's a vast parallelized network columns and neuron clusters in coordinated asynchronous operation, orchestrated to ingest millions of data points both internal and external, which result in a complex and sophisticated construct comprising the entirety of our subjective experience.

LLMs don't have the subjective experience module, explicitly. They're able to emulate the bits that are relevant to being good at predicting things, so it's possible that every individual token inference process produces a novel "flash" of subjective experience, but absent the explicit construct and a persistent and coherent self construct, it's not mapping the understanding to the larger context of its understanding of its self in the same way humans do it. The only place where the algorithmic qualities needed for subjective experience reside in LLMs is the test-time process slice, and because the weights themselves are unchanged in relation to any novel understanding which arises, there's no imprint left behind by the sensory stream (text, image, audio, etc.) Absent the imprint mechanism, there's no possibility to perpetuate the construct we think of as conscious experience, so for LLMs, there can never be more than individual flashes of subjectivity, and those would be limited to very low resolution correlations a degree or more of separation away from the direct experience of any sensory inputs, whereas in humans the streams are tightly coupled to processing, update in real-time, and persist through the lifetime of the mind.

The pieces being modeled are the ones that are useful. The utility of consciousness has been underexplored; it's possible that it might be useful in coordination and orchestration of the bits and pieces of "minds" that are needed to operate intelligently over arbitrarily long horizon planning, abstract generalization out of distribution, intuitive leaps between domains that only relate across multiple degrees of separation between abstract principles, and so on. It could be that consciousness will arise as an epiphenomenological outcome from the successful linking together of systems that solve the problems LLMs currently face, and the things which overcome the jagged capabilities differential are the things that make persons out of human minds.

It might also be possible to orchestrate and coordinate those capabilities without bringing a new mind along for the ride, which would be ideal. It's probably very important that we figure out what the case is, and not carelessly summon a tortured soul into existence.


Looks like somebody used AI to generate this response. XD


Cyber attacks are consentual, digital engineering is the only discipline where we have complete mastery of the media. If you make a system (or authorize it) what someone does with it is your fault.


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