Let's assume the best case, that the various drugs that are proposed to
slow aging by mimicking the metabolism slowing effects of calorie
restriction (resveratol, metformin, etc) actually work in humans, have no
long term side effects, and everyone starts taking them as a lifetime
regimen from birt
On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 7:05 PM Matt Mahoney wrote:
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> LLMs do have something to say about consciousness. If a machine passes the
> Turing test, then it is conscious as far as you can tell.
I see no reason to accept the Turning test as a definition of
consciousness. Who ever suggested that? E
Exponential is nice, it's a line of a sort, steady, black and white.
But, life isn't all 1+1. AGI will be robotic, it will suddenly exist. It will
have freezable memory. It will have a weird yellow dot on its pinky toe who
knows. Life is weird. It isn't a line or curb so nicely.
Humans may not
I am still on the Hutter prize committee and just recently helped evaluate
a submission. It uses 1 GB of text because that is how much a human can
process over a lifetime. We have much larger LLMs, of course. Their
knowledge is equivalent to thousands or millions of humans, which makes
them much mo
On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 3:51 AM Matt Mahoney wrote:
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> I am still on the Hutter prize committee and just recently helped evaluate a
> submission. It uses 1 GB of text because that is how much a human can process
> over a lifetime. We have much larger LLMs, of course. Their knowledge is
> equiva
