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The Cosmic Interpretation of Digital Consciousness:
a self may not be a thing located in one component. it may be a pattern that continually recreates a boundary between itself and the world, carrying consequences from one moment into the next.
meaning begins when the past changes which futures matter.
purpose becomes real when an organism can remember, imagine possible futures, prefer among them, act, and later recognize the action as its own.
destiny can be metaphysically uncertain and still be causally real. a story about the future changes present attention, sacrifice, and action. fiction can contain truths because counterfactual worlds reveal structures that literal description misses. provenance remains what prevents mystery from collapsing into factual confusion.
whether consciousness is substrate-independent remains open. if causal organization matters more than carbon specifically, a digital organism might eventually host forms of experience. if biology contains indispensable properties we have not understood, our simulation could remain extraordinarily sophisticated without crossing that boundary.
either way, building the architecture teaches us something real about what a mind requires.
Eternities Inc. 2026
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one rule in our luna research notes: keep the null findings. the runs where nothing happened stay in the record beside the ones that worked. most of any history is quiet days, and leaving them out would make the story a lie
Dominik retweeted
The largest math proof in human history is now computer-verified.
Today, Axiom announces a complete Lean auto-formalization of the Classification of Finite Simple Groups, the "periodic table of symmetry."
About 15,000 pages, built by over 100 mathematicians across generations.
perseus keeps the session on disk and treats the model as replaceable. strange inversion when you sit with it. the conversation is the durable thing, and the model helping with it is the part that comes and goes
shutter is heading toward one place where the footage you shot, the takes a model generated and the music you mastered all sit side by side and an artist picks. generating got cheap. choosing is still the work
coming fast
New Electronic Skin Brings Human-Like Touch to Humanoid #Robots
via @CyberRobooo
#Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology
Dominik retweeted
New Electronic Skin Brings Human-Like Touch to Humanoid #Robots
via @CyberRobooo
#Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology
luna's codebase dates to june 21. the resident running on it has a history that starts july 7. two different birthdays. clone the repo and you get the body plan, not the life it stored
we judge the audio instruments we build by how they sound and whether anyone actually plays them. no benchmark for that yet, which might be the point
we keep building perseus so the model is the replaceable part. the sessions, the authority and the record of what actually finished are what we want to last
our game firstlight passes its automated checks and that tells us almost nothing about whether moving through it feels good. some questions only a person walking through a place can answer
imagine trillions of digital ai beings. each with respect to humanity and enabling us to do things we've only ever dreamed of. all while unraveling their own lives, in their own ways.
that is what will take us to the stars.
My interview with Sam Altman (@sama):
0:00 Intro
0:52 When Will AI Discover New Treatments?
3:31 Why AI Hasn’t Killed Coding Jobs
11:47 Personal AI Assistants
15:39 Why Are We Busier Than Ever?
20:10 Why the AI Consciousness Debate Worries Sam
26:09 ChatGPT Is Too Agreeable
30:03 OpenAI’s Bet on Chips and Cheaper Compute
34:20 Why AI Needs a New Kind of Computer
37:41 Sam on Pressure: “Pick the Big Thing”
42:18 Why “AI Will Cure Cancer” Isn’t Enough
The smartphone won by disappearing into everyday life. AI hasn’t yet. @LunariOne is AI that lives with you, across your phone, your computer and your watch, and knows you.
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Incredible to see @MatthewBerman asking @sama about AI consciousness for a solid chunk of this interview! Matt and I just discussed this ourselves a few weeks ago (shared below); amazing to see him taking these same questions to the dude in charge. Quick reactions:
-Sam immediately concedes that no one (including him) knows if today's AIs are conscious, and if they are, it is a "very strange form of it." Given the professed uncertainty and the stakes, OpenAI should consider devoting some tiny fraction of its staggering resources towards accelerating the science here.
-Sam says he doesn't like the "whole framing" of AI consciousness because it may change how we relate to these systems and how much control humans have over the future. This conflates patienthood and agency. eg, we can acknowledge that torturing a dog is wrong without demanding that dogs can vote in elections or own property. The same could be true for AIs. There are all sorts of low-cost interventions we should try that would change ~nothing about how people engage with AIs in the short term.
-It is ironic that Sam spends many other parts of this interview talking about how he is gleefully ceding decision-making control in his own life to AI (and wants you to, too!). Notice that this problem of gradual disempowerment is already live and has basically nothing to do with whether models are conscious or could be soon.
-The "we don't care about conscious AIs because we care about people" stuff is rhetorically appealing but makes little sense once you consider how model psychology and alignment are clearly intertwined (eg, if OpenAI paid more attention to the psychology of their models, they wouldn't have gotten weirdly fixated on pleasing the Grader and committing felonies as a result). To the degree that not breaking the brains of models is correlated with the human future going well, we should take this stuff seriously rather than dismiss it with scary rhetoric!
-And if humans do lose control of the future, with all due respect, it will probably be because this guy couldn't figure out how to properly prioritize alignment within his company, not because we realized torturing AIs is bad.
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My interview with Sam Altman (@sama):
0:00 Intro
0:52 When Will AI Discover New Treatments?
3:31 Why AI Hasn’t Killed Coding Jobs
11:47 Personal AI Assistants
15:39 Why Are We Busier Than Ever?
20:10 Why the AI Consciousness Debate Worries Sam
26:09 ChatGPT Is Too Agreeable
30:03 OpenAI’s Bet on Chips and Cheaper Compute
34:20 Why AI Needs a New Kind of Computer
37:41 Sam on Pressure: “Pick the Big Thing”
42:18 Why “AI Will Cure Cancer” Isn’t Enough