Good luck Dan! Parliament will be lucky to have you

Having a blast at #TSC2024 ! This evening I'm presenting a paper which I'm writing with Chris Percy & Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson on the 'hard problem' of valence; ~6:30pm, Grand Ballroom Salon E. Come and watch!

Title: Fusion of Consciouness
Authors: Donald Hoffman, Prakash Chetan, Robert Prentner
Reviewer: Chris Percy

'Fusions of Consciousness' presents a thought-provoking and ambitious exploration of consciousness, spacetime, and scientific assumptions.

As more people get interested in consciousness we will see an uptick in converts to specific lineages / theories. This is because we are not used to handling much uncertainty (it manifests as somewhat unpleasant excess energy in the body/mind and our instinct is to get rid of it

This is another example of a system deliberately designed to be an ordeal in order to suppress demand. In this case because local authorities are broke.

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'How happy are our children?': eight stand-out insights from the annual state of the nation🧵

#OpenAI is planning to stop #ChatGPT users from making social media bots and cheating on homework by 'watermarking' outputs. How well could this really work? Here's just 23 words from a 1.3B parameter watermarked LLM. We detected it with 99.999999999994% confidence. Here's how 🧵

Interesting new research on paid work - links to our previous conversations Anthony Mann Dr Elnaz Kashef Tristram Hooley

Exciting news! QRI’s first peer-reviewed paper has been published in Open Philosophy. Co-authored by myself and Chris Percy (Chris Percy), 'The 'Slicing Problem' for Computational Theories of Consciousness' 🧵 (1/9) degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Thought-provocative new paper from Geoffrey Hinton: what if we could replace backpropagation with something better?

Are you an ML engineer interested in advanced meditative states (the Jhanas)?

Jhourney is looking for an ML engineer to monitor brainwaves and coach people into blissful meditation states in record speed, bypassing years of practice. Interested? DM @zerfas33.

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A London summer classic - it's too hot for the ice cream shop

after college there should a year or two of career rotation where you explore totally different careers, 3 months each, so you know if you want to be an investment banker, a carpenter, a psychiatrist, an artist, an engineer, a beach bum, real estate agent, or a diplomat

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has launched a new primary schools programme supported by Primary Futures

It will help challenge stereotypes, show pupils the relevance of the subjects they are studying and
showcase construction & infrastructure jobs

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