Thx for this great chat! Connor Leahy does an excellent job illustrating ideas that are hard to grapple with. Your questions were on 🎯. The quagmire of capitalistic society barelling through amidst, at the cost of many externalities that are hidden, ignored is just 🤯. Pls invite Karen Hao next!!

Not to mention the 10 year moratorium on state regulation of AI, which aims to prevent states from enforcing their own AI laws, allowing for a more unified federal approach to AI regulation. Then converge this with the military weapons, as mentioned, also budgeted. The race to the bottom ensues smh

Then the White House doubled down on it
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Bravo!

Among other reasons why this study is important, “There are people that are taken away from life-support intervention because they are deemed as not being ‘there,’” Chis-Ciure says. “The stakes are too high to not tackle the problem head-on.”

"And IIT says that conscious experience would emerge more toward the back of the brain, where nearby networks of neurons are more closely connected, Koch explains."

Here's the article:

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