Big step closer to identifying conscious perception in the brain, by Doris Tsao and collaborators. 15 times a second your neurons flicker between conscious and unconscious activity. Consciousness is found in time, not in space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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not nerdy enough for the nerds, don’t party enough for the nightlifers, too weird for the dolls, i don’t do much sw anymore, not horny enough for the t4t. there’s no single way to be a woman, but i sure chose the “a little bit of everything so i’m kind of nothing to anyone”

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Sometimes we absolutely are our thoughts.* I mean, no, not really not from psychological and certainly not from Buddhist perspectives (mental formations are 1 of the 5 skandas!).

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sadly the same guy loses that thread towards the end at gets back to basically saying that alignment is the most important thing rather than the fundamental safety system stuff whose breaches he himself bemoans.

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this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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