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Poor Miguel... "MMAcevedo, also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain...it was the first to be captured with sufficient fidelity that it could be run in simulation on computer hardware without succumbing to cascading errors, and rapidly crashing." qntm.org/lena

Something something Torment Nexus something...

Be sure to create it? You better create it! Hurry up and create it, I think that’s how it’s supposed to go

get cthulhu'd on you fukin nerd

Getting a little worried how SMAC seems to be ever more applicable in our everyday lives tbh

Miriam Godwinson did nothing wrong.

The idea of being over overfit fills me with existential dread in a way I can't quite name

i need Neal Stephenson to stop being fucking right about the future right fucking now “Fall; or, Dodge in Hell” called AI psychosis and now brains locked in a video game and he simply cannot keep getting away with this

I need to finish that book…but also I’m like “do I really want to know…”

If it helps any, connectomes don't have any information about firing patterns, temporality, support structures (that also compute), neurotransmitter flow, etc. that are required for anything approaching consciousness.

and now I'm wondering if that matters if you replace those details with other functions that result in the same behavior (obvs you'd train on very different material to get that). What a weird time to be alive

I think Lena by qntm is a far more fitting and horrifying comparision actiually qntm.org/mmacevedo

I can’t sleep and I’m up trying not to cry in abject horror and despair at the idea and nature of subjecting a connectome to torture for mundane entertainment