Wisdom in fragments

We could potentially realise that consciousness extends beyond brains.

I think major assumptions have to be backed by extraordinary science.

If you want to say consciousness emerges, it has to emerge from something. You can't get apples from oranges.

There's no science I've seen that's publicly accessible indicating these systems are conscious, but there's good science to indicate that they emulate us, because they're trained on our data.

It's as if AI has become a laboratory for understanding the nature of the mind.

I do worry that, at the end of the day, we might be laying down the tendrils of surveillance and that they will be hard to remove.

The same GPT, say 6.1 or whatever the latest model is, could be conscious when it's run on one kind of system and not conscious on another.

A program or a model is an abstract entity, like an equation. Those are not the things that are conscious.

I think it is outgrowing our family as we speak.

Places like the US and the UK seem to be getting pulled in so many directions by so many different factions within the country that there's no cohesive view of where we want to go, what we stand for and who we want to be.

I think a lot of people love the idea, and it's romantic, but after a year they've gone, oof, that was a lot of trouble and some real hard work.

They tried every nasty trick to stop us. And it was only the power of the press that rescued us.

But you don't have a lot of choice about it. With Sealand, you can choose.

They would open every tin of beans or whatever was going out there, just in case there was something inside that shouldn't be.

Even the whole recognition thing is just the old boys looking after the old boys' club.

You can form an online community, you can be a Discord server, but unless you actually have some sovereign territory, it remains an idea in people's minds.