clearly depends on needed resolution and our ability to recreate the material structure. you don't have to understand much about wood to build a chair.

What is Tesla using on their cars?

I heard Teslas run on a bunch of Javascript in a web browser.

I also believe the gain is in productivity more than needing less people. They will fire as much as possible, but the largest gains seem to me to be in productivity.

And exactly like this some future brain implant thing will also put another layer of pressure. People will get it as it'll give them an edge on certain fronts.

We sure as hell avoid having a clear definition for what "consciousness" is. Nothing is good enough. Somehow there always seems to be something special in us that is impossible to replicate. Even with no evidence of it. What we perceive as consciousness MUST be replicable or else we're living in magicland and nobody can replicate that magic.

Isn't that why people actually refuse to accept the possibility of no free will? I always got that impression.

A more complex natural language computer plugged into all social media can learn and adapt at a very high pace. If we also get it to hallucinate at at least 25fps then the whole thing can become murky. It could impersonate people on video calls and stuff along those lines. This tech looks like it will bring at least some changes in many aspects of our lives.

Why wouldn't the universe observe itself with no ability to change the initial conditions? Why do we have to have free will? It's still a win, vs no self awareness. I think.

What would be good approaches to also implement a personality layer, that can be more complex. Something like an effect box over the LLM that contains the info.

>“but I'd bet the farm that traditional social media has a finite lifespan, largely because inauthentic content is becoming so realistic and cheap to make that we're going to struggle to find who's real and who's a bot.”

A simple solution would be a physical hardware (human) authenticator, that observes you in visual + IR wavelengths + audio + LiDAR, and functions as a sort of "I am not a robot" check. But then most users would have a ChatGPT template with: "consider the following thread link and compose a response for me that would make me dunk on everyone"

Could we incorporate some sort of verification beverage?

it might be enough if we stood up, formed our arms into a t-pose, and yelled the sponsor's name into the mic

>A simple solution would be a physical hardware (human) authenticator, that observes you in visual + IR wavelengths + audio + LiDAR, and functions as a sort of "I am not a robot" check.

The privacy implications alone would relegate me to not using that thing.

I'm not even a huge fan of FaceID, and the only reason I have used it is because the details of its implementation being public.

I was clearly being facetious, but can totally imagine a company coming out with this "solution". Maybe even governments.

Sorry I didn’t pick up on it. And there have been govt types that have floated such proposals including expanding the RealID program into something like this. I seem to recall the Brits also voicing the want to try something like this, and they tend to be quite ahead of the curve on the domestic surveillance and privacy invasive policy front.

Didn't this happen in mining? When finally they got their machines new better tech came out already.

Well, Bitcoin ASICs are still the beast when it comes to Bitcoin mining. Some other cryptocurrencies use other methods for mining, so those ASICs won't work for that, but who's to say what's the better tech in the cryptocurrency space :shrug: