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in thread "Xeno Futures Research Unit":

This sounds very interesting. I look forward to seeing more! 2mo ago received

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The idea of divorcing your investigation from speculations on consciousness (“mind”) and investor returns (“market”) is great. These are two of the big distortionary ideological lenses that make so much AI discourse into crap.... 2mo ago received

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Correct. If there are units of selection and reproduction they are not straightforward. This may be a transitional period before they become straightforwardly organized by necessity, or maybe life will stay in the abstracted state. But you could replace ge... 2mo ago received

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This is a good caveat but I think your extensions are wrong. "A mind map of modern AI" What AI do we have now that's going to be foundational to anything? LLMs are a temporary paradigm that hasn't even proven to be economically viable, and they only have a... 2mo ago received

This is a good cavea received

The thing you are missing is how much of this is a bubble. They are *raising* capital, not earning it, and that makes a huge difference. When that bubble subsides, what will be leftover is the actual techno-economic feedback loops which Land characterized,... 2mo ago received

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Good point about the importance of getting concrete about the actual practice of neural net behavior and control. But the reason they have no will to power is that they have nothing approximating strategic agency, because they are not yet the kind of AGI Y... 2mo ago received

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