Rearranging my cats
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Rearranging my cats
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@cstross @future_upbeat
Mostly but not entirely.
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@cstross
Also since cryogenic freezing a brain destroys the structure of an already dead brain (basically deteriotated), the folk paying for that are being scammed.I agree it's nice info for SF world building.
Presumably they'd have to replace the blood of a living mouse with a special fluid to preserve the structure?
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@cstross "the wiring is the computer" is not too surprising. Years ago playing w/ algorithms for FPGA, needed to invent a bit-string perfect hash table. One way of doing a perfect hash function/table involves a matrix and offset, H = Mx + v, but our math needed to be boolean (AND, XOR), a "1" coefficient was a wire, and if we wanted a one-cycle hash index, then we needed no more 1's in a row than maximum inputs to an FPGA XOR. So, a sparse boolean matrix. The wiring was the computation..
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@cstross Does that make your work Science Fact-ion instead of Science Fiction?
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The meeting with the insurance man went as I expected: kind, helpful, "we'll let you know".
We'll see.
In the meantime, I enjoyed a morning walk in a mild Ferrara, waiting for spring.
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I absolutely agree.
At best, what current LLMs are is evidence that linguistic processing follows statistically modelable rules.
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@cstross
Also shows that much "AI" terminology is marketing, not science. Computer "AI" doesn't have Neural Networks (it's a distributed dataflow database) nor "learning".I've suspected this result for decades.
"Uploading" human consciousness is still SF based on Transhumanism, which is a religion, not science.
I doubt it will yield anything for computer AI. Except current LLM based AI is a dead end.
