Leo Gura

It can in the way dogs are sentient. You do imagine a difference between dogs and calculators. Will AI be more like a dog or a calculator? We don't yet know. Do not bring the solipsism issue into this. That's a category error. We are not speaking of that level.

To escape Omniscience. You are dreaming in order to gain relief from being God. Being God is too easy and boring. You are so bored you want excitement and drama. That is the purpose of life. Life is a vacation from being God. When you are God, you want to be human, and when you are human, you want to be God. God is human for the same reason humans play video games.

It clearly helps Ukraine. Because the only chance Ukraine has is to bog Russia down into an endless war that Russia cannot win. Then Russia will get tired and quit. Russia cannot keep fighting an endless war. Ukraine is Afghanistan 3.0 At some point Putin will retire. He's getting old.

You are seeing the twisted force of survival play out in Israel as a whole in real time. Israel is drowning in unconscious survival. Notice how that ends in evil.

I thought he talking about farming.

@enchanted I answered above.

Be careful. It could happen, but that does not mean that's what is happening in an LLM. An LLM could just be a big dumb box. We don't know yet.

No. Be careful. Nowhere does that quote say that. Reason is just one function of God, not the totality or even essence of God. God is reason is like God is kangaroo. That does not mean you should worship kangaroos now. That final thin line is DEATH! Haha. You will continue to resist until DEATH. LIFE is resistance to DEATH. Are you still ALIVE? Then don't be surprised by resistance.

@mmKay Yup

UFO Blowhard is a career option now.

Ego is a sloppy term and concept. What is ego, after all? That concept is not nuanced enough for a deep understanding of what's going on. We are really talking about the entire psyche, the entire Self. That's a very complicated thing with many moving parts. It is the entire psyche that is reacting to horror. That entire psyche is reacting to a psychedelic trip and you are not removing the entire psyche.

No, that is not my claim. My claim is simply that your entire self will freak out at radical aspects of Consciousness. It is not just ego. If we chop your foot off with an axe, it is not only the ego that is reacting there. The self doesn't entirely disappear in a psychedelic trip. Many aspects of it remain or morph.

It doesn't work that neatly. The ego is still there and it is suffering. Suffering is wired so deep into the psyche that you will never just skip over it.

Salvia is like throwing a child into a haunted house by herself. Of course there will be suffering. The human mind is tuned to function in only a narrow band of Consciousness. Outside that band it fails and things become chaotic and scary.

Bro. That IS the highest threat to survival.