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Looking forward to listening to this.

Reading this wisdom from Bernard J. Baars, PhD makes me wish I took greater care to emphasize the framing of psychedelics in terms of playful/childlike 'cognition' (c.f. Alison Gopnik account of childhood as "simulated annealing," and Michael Edward Johnson account of psychedelics as annealing

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This was such a wonderful event/community to be a part of. Thank you to everyone who helped to make Edge Esmeralda happen. Looking forward to future gatherings.

I think Sam Altman and Grok should settle this dispute by both attending the workshop(s) I'm planning for the AI Capabilities and Alignment Consensus Project (AICACP): adamsafron.com/ai-capabilitie…

:) x.com/adamsafron/sta… (Does this line of thinking/feeling provide some support for Eckhart Tolle's idea of the "Painbody"?) eckharttolle.com/the-painbody-e…

If most of the performance enhancements for GPT-5 came from scaling inference-time/'reasoning' compute (as opposed to more pre-training), what does this mean for what we ought to expect from future large training runs?

"Plasticity is maintained indefinitely only by algorithms that continually inject diversity into the network, such as our continual backpropagation algorithm, a variation of backpropagation in which a small fraction of less-used units are continually and randomly reinitialized."

All working memory = motor working memory? mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/6…

🙏 Compassion training during session-preparation as treatment-as-usual for psychedelic psychotherapy? researchsquare.com/article/rs-742…

Among the things that Elon Musk has said recently, I've thought it's been profound the way he's been pointing out that the humanoid form factor for robots isn't just useful for navigating worlds built for humans, but also because the human body plan is a marvel of 'engineering.'

Really enjoyed having this conversation on one of my favorite podcasts. I felt seen :)

I agree with Yann LeCun

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Loved this discussion. Looking forward to re-listening to it once it's online.

While I love the idea of a sentient sun, trying to make one doesn't seem like one our near-future priorities as a civilization/species. I'm also not sure whether sentience/experience is possible for cognizing systems on that scale, as it may be difficult to have cybernetic

Fascinating discussion with Gary Marcus, Karl Friston, and thesmartrobot on the limits of LLMs and the nature(s) of "world modeling" and "agency" in intelligence (and enjoyed getting to ask a 'question' at the end). youtube.com/watch?v=cSYOiJ… adamsafron.com/call-for-submi…