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I'll crack some open and give it a shot. If I find anything that consistently works I'll update here

Dude, what is this book. Who writes like this? I fucking adore it

Now I know what's happening

I've thought about doing this with my resume, but I'm no prompt engineer

The rest of this thread is bonkers. I have no idea what's happening

Oh fuck yeah, buddy! I'm grabbing it right now! Might buy the audio on libro.fm to support the author too

Question 5 is a different format from the rest. It threw me off. Not sure if that's part of your study or not. Good luck on the dissertation!

I'm a sci fi nerd from foundation to Hyperion to the expanse but I've never heard of Blindsight, and you've absolutely sold me on it

Ooo added the book to my list, thanks!

Also, Robert Sapolsky's book Determined explores whether we're conscious or not based on his work in neuroscience and primatology. It's like a book length version of the quote you posted

It had to be within a minute lol I saw it at 15 seconds and it was gone when I refreshed

They went all in on the bit then chickened out when it wasn't well received. The epitome of edge lording

They found a way to create a high surface area capacitor made largely from abundant resources. Even a proof of concept is a discovery. We may not see it in practice in our lifetimes because science and industry take time, but that doesn't diminish the value at all.

Why is this a false equivalence? I'm not saying this is the next Faraday. I'm comparing contemporaries. You can't know what technologies will make what kind of difference in the future, but there's no harm in being excited about our interested in them and their possibilities. I think my comparisons are fair, especially if you consider the technology of each contemporary era. What about Turing? He created a mechanical computational machine and extrapolated the future possibility of machines that could mimic human communication. That is absolutely an edge case assumption given the technology of the time and yet here we are with LLMs running rampant.