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Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
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Research on the ability of large language models to introspect on their own internal states.
Exploring model welfare
articleAnnouncing a new research program at Anthropic on model welfare
Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.
The United Nations has issued a warning about the potential misuse of neurotechnology, calling for limits on the rapidly advancing field.
Visual artist and writer Klea McKenna, daughter of psychedelic pioneer Terence McKenna and ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison, joins Hans Busstra to reflect on her unconventional childhood, her own relationship with psychedelics, and her work preserving her parents’ legacy through the Lux Natura Archive. Known for her camera-less photography, Klea brings an artist’s perspective to questions of nature, consciousness and the stories we tell about psychedelic experiences. Het bericht The legacy of Terence McKenna verscheen eerst op Essentia Foundation .
I Have Cancer
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My recent book AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview is free online toda
Starting September 23, 2026, Microsoft is updating the author-signing certificate used for NuGet packages. Customers using trusted signer policies or certificate fingerprint verification should add the new certificate as soon as possible. The post Microsoft is updating its author-signing certificate starting September 23, 2026 appeared first on .NET Blog .
Fragments: September 29
articleSimon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge This has been a constant impression I get from following Willison’s writing. While things like vibe coding get a lot of attention, the real strength of agentic engineering relies on more sophisticated techniques - and these are not easy to learn or execute. It’s a reason I’m wary of extrapolating my own dabblings into firm opinions about how
Fragments: October 4
articleIn response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied : we shipped the id and forgot the superego. classic software lifecycle. I don’t know what was on their mind, but their post immediately made me think of the classic 1956 movie Forbidden Planet. Plenty of sci-fi, and other literature, have explored humans creating technology with unintended behavior, going back at least to Mary Shelly. But that movie was particularly influential on sci-fi film-making and in
To achieve happiness, we need to understand what makes us happy and what brings us peace. One way to know if we are on the right path is “the happiness method” The post Inside the Intuitive Mind: Our New EEG Study with Muse appeared first on IONS .