If I may, based on this piece, you might also enjoy the serialized book I'm writing on AI and consciousness (TL;DR: I don't think it's close, but I offer a possible framework built on abstraction and resilience). Here's the latest (which gets a bit personal): mchrisriley.medium.com/part-3-resil...

I sympathize. I'm roughly D4 down to an A1. I can sing Johnny Cash at karaoke and that's about it unless I drop an octave and that just sounds weird. It was fun to be the lowest singer in the Yale Russian Chorus during my time, though.

For future anthropologists or others studying the internet to make sense of it, I will add to this that I wrote it when the internet was abuzz with the second installment of Ryan Lizza writing about Olivia Nuzzi. And if those names mean nothing to you, congratulations, you are better off for that.

I would be a bit concerned about the 5 year old battery, personally, but budget is budget. If you do go this route definitely get 512 GB storage. Even the folk I know with extremely ordinary laptop usage struggle at 256 GB with how bloated core OS and apps seem to have become.

No, you don't. Really.

in this economy? pff

each year since COVID started counts as three so uhh i'd say it's actually 20 years. (let's call Nov 2016 to Mar 2020 as 3.5 years and Mar 2020 to now as 5.5 years x 3 = 16.5 + 3.5 = 20.)

After the epic conference round too.

Oh and before you ask, "Wow, Chris, what are you writing??" Here is the introduction: mchrisriley.medium.com/introduction... - Chapter 1 is up too, and I'm in the midst of editing Chapter 2.

It's extra ironic to use an AI copyeditor to write about how AI is absolutely not conscious, and not close.