Foyle's Shortform
Oct 25, 20253
An interesting comment from Max Tegmark in Lex Friedman podcast on an idea attributed to Giulio Tononi (I haven't found publication source for this idea); that consciousness and perhaps goal-formation is a function of recurrence. Recurrence being the feeding back of output to input in a once-through neural net such...
Good news today I think; a poll by yougov had a near majority somewhat concerned to very concerned about existential risk of AI, with younger people most concerned. Given relative newness of (debatably) Transformative AI I think this suggests we will see a strong bipartisan political movement to regulate AI...