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Back in 2009 I offered a framework for how you could envision an AI that is not actually thinking — not conscious or sentient, not ensouled — yet can replicate many of the behaviors of thinking. I think it holds up quite well to the current moment. thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
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It's not the Iran war or the tariffs or the immigration raids or the tax bill or any other event or decision.
The single best predictor of Trump's popularity at a given moment is the number of days he has been in office.
It's a linear trend down.
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A notable vibe shift feature was the New/Tech/X right’s embrace of this stuff to wink at itself: Fat baby Vance! Miyazaki crying immigrants! Rename everything! See, you can't say we're insane because we're in on the joke!
How did that work out? Add to today's reflection pile.
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This is the actual honest defense of genetic screening for embryos: it is, after all, not about helping people to have better lives but about wishing those who don't could simply be unalived. Just say that! But then don't act surprised when others find that horrible.
Lots of people with depression in fact wish they were never born, so I think this one is pretty fair.
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It may not seem like it now, but I suspect that in the long run the AI/tech world is doing the country a great favor by exposing the national immune system to its thoughts and dreams at the massive dose it is doing so right now.
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To clarify the revulsion many have at this: You can look at CRISPR and defensibly say "I wish we could use this to help people prone to depression." But the wish in embryo screening is "I wish we could keep people prone to depression from being born." You should not wish that.
Every parent wants a happy child. So we built MDD-PGT, the first genetic predictor of depression for embryo screening.
Kids with a lower MDD-PGT tend to sleep better, fight less and enjoy jokes more. With 10 embryos, picking the lowest-risk one cuts depression risk by over 40%.
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It may not seem like it now, but I suspect that in the long run the AI/tech world is doing the country a great favor by exposing the national immune system to its thoughts and dreams at the massive dose it is doing so right now.
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Abraham Lincoln once wrote that he was “the most miserable man living.”
This new embryo test was built to screen out children just like him.
Here are seven people who carried that risk, and what they gave the world anyway...
Every parent wants a happy child. So we built MDD-PGT, the first genetic predictor of depression for embryo screening.
Kids with a lower MDD-PGT tend to sleep better, fight less and enjoy jokes more. With 10 embryos, picking the lowest-risk one cuts depression risk by over 40%.
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Remember to vote no on bond issues today, no matter what.
I explain why @PostOpinions
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I'm grateful to be alive and I'm grateful that no one looked at my genome before I was born to say, "looks like a depressive, better flush him down the drain."
Every parent wants a happy child. So we built MDD-PGT, the first genetic predictor of depression for embryo screening.
Kids with a lower MDD-PGT tend to sleep better, fight less and enjoy jokes more. With 10 embryos, picking the lowest-risk one cuts depression risk by over 40%.
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Seeing your child as a cosmic gift is itself a kind of gift you give yourself, and one that no amount of genetic upgrading can replace
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Every human being deserves parents who welcome and love them into the world, not who swiped on them in an app based on a promise of what they'll be and threw away their brothers and sisters and will see them with buyer's remorse if they don't deliver on the ad.
Every parent wants a happy child. So we built MDD-PGT, the first genetic predictor of depression for embryo screening.
Kids with a lower MDD-PGT tend to sleep better, fight less and enjoy jokes more. With 10 embryos, picking the lowest-risk one cuts depression risk by over 40%.
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The Chinese room thought experiment + the Taylor-Dreyfus articulation of absorbed coping is not a one-shot against intelligence being computable (as often billed), but it is against consciousness being computable. So file this one under n/a.
It really seems as though if consciousness is computable, there's no question we achieve immortality and we do so within about 20 years.
But if it's not, it's going to be so much harder.
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Very oversimplified:
1. Absorbed engagement in a world is constitutive of consciousness.
2. Time is constitutive of that world.
3. Time is *not* constitutive of computing: a program can run in 1s or 1b years and reach the same result.
4. Thus: consciousness is not computable.
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More on Taylor and Dreyfus here: thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
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