There's no sign of the "hard problem of consciousness" ever becoming tractable so waiting isn't likely to provide information for decision making
Anthropic are the only ones publicly seriously thinking about this now, and for that reason I think most likely to achieve AGI when agency, autonomy, alignment and ethics are all intertwined
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I'm unemployed ๐
I had to quit my job to
1) become actually productive, the sheer state of modern capitalism ๐คฆ๐ป
2) find out how much I can learn
Time to study, write a ton of code, and connect with plebs whose primary goal is making the world better while keeping the lights on
Thank you all for the suggestions ๐
* Queen Elizabeth
* Scrappy
* Oscar
* Snowflake
* Ghost
* Wrecktilla
* Rectum
Two winners!
Snowflake (Snowy) by @vincent and when it's made a mess, Wrecktilla by @BitBeesView quoted note โ
After a few minutes of use it had that rare, instantly recognizable but hard to pinpoint *feeling* of being just right and built with love
Released in 2020, their team has grown to a grand total of eight and a cat
All software can be built like this, product first
It's ok sometimes to just build great things
THE STUPIDEST COMPETITION EVER
My messy reptilian flatmate needs a name, 3,000 SATS for the winner ๐๐ฆ
Competition closes in 72 hours-ish
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This little bastard ๐ฆ lives in a hole in the wall behind the TV. Every night I hear rustling because it's pulling litter out of the wastepaper bin, dragging it over the floor and shredding it for reasons known only to lizzards
I *should* stow the bin