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and now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world
Yeah... I think we dodged a bullet when Linus didn't let his filesystem in.
Was thinking you know its bad when Linus thinks you're too toxic...
Which Linus are you referring to, exactly? Because the toxic one is the YouTuber and the comment seems to refer to Torvalds.
Torvalds literally had to take a hiatus because of how toxic he'd gotten. Luckily he didn't deny it when it was brought to his attention and he's gotten better now.
I didn't know that. Thanks for enlightening me instead of just down voting.
I think we're falling into the old reddit trap of just assuming every comment is in bad faith or motivated by cultish support or hatred of a subject, rather than realizing that sometimes people are just uninformed.
Some guy on YouTube.
Ok. So Kent's LLM is a person. And Kent is practicing neuroscience on the LLM, which he believes is a person.
Is Kent licensed to practice medicine?
Kent Overstreet
Another proof that L.Torvalds is an excellent man for his position. He managed to throw out Overstreet before he went completely crazy.
Did he throw him out? Last I knew, he basically gave Kent a blanket "no," forcing him to go his own way.
Not arguing, just asking.
Overstreet's FS was in the mainstream kernel. Not anymore. So "throw out".
Bcschefs was removed from the kernel, but it qas because Kent doesn't play well with others, and not because of the technical side. BCachefs had a lot of potential, but it serves noone to end up in another Resier situation.
Kent had a habit of pushing for wider kernel changes to support the FS, without working with the community, which will always break things. He is also very ego driven, and self-obsessed, which is not always a bad thing.
Linus' person-to-persin issues always started from a technical perspective, so it is different.
This guy is going to be next TempleOS incident, is he not?
Oh boy. I was wondering the other day how Bcachefs is progressing but a casual search didn't hit anything in the nerd news. A quick browse on the dev page didn't really inspire looking further either. I guess this is why and that this is the end of Bcachefs then. At least no wives were killed in this filesystem.
The one where a wife was killed was really progressive, though. It's a shame it's dead.
Does it do anything that isn't in response to a human's prompting? No? Then it can't be conscious. Consciousness requires having a sense of self, which implies having needs and desires that one acts to fulfill without needing prompting. Even a bacterium is more conscious than these things.
Nowhere in your unquoted definition do you state that the ‘sense of self’ must be present at all times. Humans can switch between conscious and unconscious states. When they’re unconscious they don’t have needs and desires.
tell that to the stains on my sheets, buddy.
But I don't do anything unless prompted by a human.
Consciousness requires having a sense of self, which implies having needs and desires that one acts to fulfill without needing prompting.
We don't really know that much about consciousness.
fully conscious according to any test I can think of
There's no such thing as an actual test for consciousness in machines. We can do tests on animals to see if their sensory experience includes self-awareness, but we're already operating on the assumption that they have feelings and sensory experience because they have a brain and nervous system like us, and they're all directly related to us (as all organisms are). But that's totally different from designing a machine which mimics (or predicts/auto-completes) our observable behavior and then assuming that it "doesn't like" something or does anything "for fun."
What sucks is that some idiots are going to start falling for this. And eventually software will be given human rights, which actually means that the software's owners will have extra rights compared to the rest of us.
POC is fully conscious according to any test I can think of
That only means it may smarter than you...
Horseshit.
Even if it was conscious there would be no way to know. Consciousness is entirely subjective experience - it cannot be measured.
I listened to some of the "music." I'm not sure wtf is going on in his head at this point, and I'm glad I don't understand.