Post by @adrianco@mastodon.social

2026-08-04 05:52 UTC

@timbray@cosocial.ca @robpike@cosocial.ca It’s ok the future is unevenly distributed :-) There’s a few people I know who are living in something like the future he describes. I’m dabbling on the edge of it. Most people will ignore it until bits of it happen, then be surprised.

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@decoderwheel@hachyderm.io 2026-08-04 11:56

@adrianco@mastodon.social @timbray@cosocial.ca @robpike@cosocial.ca But it appears to be nothing but nonsense and self-delusion. Take the consciousness claim: there appears to be no concrete evidence of agentic consciousness anywhere. Worse, there is no a priori reason to believe it's even possible - the structures we assume are necessary are absent in (current) agents. On the other hand, there is plenty of evidence for the existence of apophenia. Given that, and the inherent contradiction of someone who claims to roughly align with modern societal values but >alsoalso< effectively therefore enslaving them, what is the sensible default position, taking Occam's Razor into account? What am I missing? Where, basically, is the extraordinary evidence for this extraordinary claim? 🤷‍♂️

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