Baldolino Calvino (@altsilversurfer) • Hey
Love cats, long walks, and tapioca ice cream. I am an ecological economist, cryptophilosopher, and intellectual wanderer.
Professor of Historia Naturalis
Publications
- 快放晴！
- 🇬🇧 graffiti on a old stranded wreckage
🇧🇷 grafite em um velho naufrágio encalhado
🇨🇳 旧搁浅残骸上的涂鸦
🇮🇳 एक पुराने फंसे हुए मलबे पर भित्तिचित्र
كتابات على حطام قديم تقطعت به السبل 🇩🇿
Please like, stake, mirror, follow, if you like my multilingual post. Want to see your language? Have a correction for a translation? Leave in the comments! Peace to all in this great World!
- #beach #sun #sunset #sunlight #panorama #landscape #photo #photography #nature #naturephotography #clouds #cloudy #sky #summer #resort #peace #peacefulness #mindfulness #vacation #trip
- Uma vista de uma praia paradisíaca (não vou dizer que é a praia do Presídio, na cidade de Aquiraz, no Ceará. Uma visita rápida, apenas para refrescar a mente!
- To the moon!
- The future is not known, but will be the product of our choices and efforts today! Let's get to work!
- Que tal NFTs com esta paisagem
- Inspirado por @cristianvaldivia.lens eu farei algumas postagens em português. E, para celebrar a ausência de fronteiras da descentralização, farei também postagens em inglês, espanhol, francês, e em outras línguas que amigos solicitarem. O futuro é multilíngue!
- La wav3 reciente de @tincho me hizo notar lo poco que se habla en español en Lens.
Se crea poco contenido en español y si queremos adopción masiva es necesaria cambiar eso y empezar a hablar en nuestros propios idiomas.
Gracias a app como @orbapp, todos pueden leer este texto en su propio idioma, por lo que he decidido que todo el contenido que cree los fin de semana (POST, COMMENT) serán en español.
Foto: Devcon VI en Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴
- https://proofofhumanity.id
@proofofhumanity.lens
Theorists thought it was a good idea.
But in practice, your video can be thrown into the crypto chat and laugh at you, at your English, accent, appearance. Sad to see it.
I am real human, but I won't do proof of humanity because I respect myself.
- All I Want Kodaline cover to celebrate @orbapp.lens new video update 👻
- We are #unstoppable! Let's fly!
- 🌿Collect this post
🚀Congrats 🎊
🌿 @LensProtocol profile floor 🚀
💰$100 now
🌱our community took entry when it was around $4 😁
🌿might be soon we might get #Airdrop 🪂
😃but even before that we made 25X on investment
👇Guess what will be the lens #Airdrop value?
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- Let's chat
- Hello, Orb!
- Generative art with Midjourney
- Generative art with Midjourney
- Generative art with Midjourney
- Generative art with Midjourney
- Generative art with Midjourney
- Generative art with Midjourney
- Generative art with Dall-E: mecha by the moon
- Generative art with Dall-E AI: motorcycle ET
- Generative art with Dall-E AI: exoplanet flora
- Generative ART with Dall-E AI: neurons
- Happy New Year 2023!
- What do you think about carbon offsetting? Is offsetting carbon production scalable or the path to become carbon neutral humanity?
- If suddenly you see a sign, listen to it. Life IS always showing you the way.
Reminder to my twitter followers: look for me at @phaverapp and @lensterxyz!
- When you look above mundane worries, then you find your true path
- When you look above mundane worries, then you find your true path
- Sometimes a miracle appears in your way. Do not let it pass!
Twitter people: mirrored from @phaverapp via @lensterxyz
- Simple things are the ones that makes life worth it!
Twitter people: mirrored from @phaverapp via @lensterxyz
- To pass through the door of Destiny, you begin with only one step
Twitter people: this is mirrored from @phaverapp by @lensxyz
- What a good day to be alive!!! Peace!!
- Seek communion with the light and sunny days will be guaranteed!
- BTC is down 77% from the ATH, and more than a year has elapsed. Is it done? Probably not, judging from history. A protracted bear market can be anticipated, and more correction leading to or bellow the 80% down is not out of game. Prudence is advised!
- Everything flows like the wind, and so the wise one does. Just sail away!
- Do you see this? #bitcoin #reversalpattern #doublebottom #technicalanalysis #notatradecall #noturpersonalfinadviser
- Good morning, afternoon, or night! After cloudy weather, we can be sure of clear skies ahead!
- Au revoir, Twitter! Hello, Phaver and Lens!
Sunset somewhere in northeastern Brazil
- Seize the day! Presídio Beach, Brazil
- Hey #lensfrens 🪴 so here is my FIRST EVER GIVEAWAY 🎉
The asset here is the Pokémon Champion's Path Elite Trainer 🎁(Sealed) which could hold that secret 🤫#CHARIZARD
Will 🫵 be that lucky winner ?
This is first of many movements 🚴🏿♂️🚴🏿♂️🚴🏿♂️TRUST ME!!!
All u need to do is FOLLOW ME MIRROR THE POST AND COLLECT THIS POST…
this giveaway will ⏳ on the 1st december at 2pm (uk) and i will draw the winner through lensdrop.xyz!!! Good luck everyone 🌏🌏🌏🤞🤞🤞
- Where is it headed? **Up** or **down**? Or just *sideways*?
`It's undecidable`
- gm lens frens 👋
Today I have made an important decision in my life 📢
I quit my job today and going to focus full-time on maintaining the first-ever open-source frontend @lenster.lens 🌸 powered by @lensprotocol 🌿.
Building social media was my dream since 10th grade, I built more than 4 social media in public but all failed, Lenster is my 5th one and it’s going crazy ⚡️.
I believe building in public is key 🔑 to the success of a product.
We have a lot of items queued up in the roadmap, be excited about it 🕺
**Collect this post for 2 WMATIC and support Lenster’s development 🙏**
- After a sudden capitulation, we saw a reaction from BTC. The danger of more volatility, and a new test of the recent bottom is very real. Buckle up!
- I personally am leaving Twitter for 3 very different places: Lens, Tumblr (yes, I still have and old account there), and Discord. They are not Twitter, but that is ok, because I do not want another one. I want to go on. Musk is imploding it, but it was about time to move to the new.
- In this interesting NY Magazine article, John Herrman tells us his take of where to go now that Nero has set Rome in flames. I mean, Musk has set Twitter in flames. Between Mastodon, the "alt" tribes, oldies like Tumblr, and newbies like Discord, there is many choices for very different people, but not one only place to go. As he puts, the question os not what will be the "new Twitter", but what will come after it.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/making-sense-of-mastodon-and-other-twitter-alternatives.html
- https://opensea.io/collection/universesinc
There is a gigantic landscape of possible universes in the multiverse, and all differ by parameters that can be encoded in a Calabyi-Yau manifold. Fantastic Universes is a collection of NFTs depicting 49 (50th is hidden) manifolds, each representing the potential of a new universe. How are they different from ours? What surprises they could bring? Everyone can imagine how would it be to create their own Universe!
- An innovative collection! Polygon chain based, minted in Open Sea, still not listed (soon)! Why would you limit yourself to dream about having your own villa, city, or even country? Have your own Universe on the Multiverse!!!
https://opensea.io/collection/universesinc
- CAN AN AI GAIN CONSCIENCE? - ANTÔNIO CONSELHEIRO
Comment by Antônio Conselheiro, mystic from the Sertão and philosopher of the mind, about the AI LaMDA.
The dismissive general response of both “authorities”, and Google representatives to the alegations of an AI engineer that a linguistic model is sentient may be wrong. Also, it could be a very interesting opportunity lost. The consensus response has been that the alegations are really ridiculous, that the linguistic model is only weigthing probabilities of the occurrence of phrasal constructs using an enormous dataset of natural language examples, and that there is no trace of self-awareness in it. But is that so?
One stumbles on the conceptual frame about intelligence, cognition, conscience, self-awareness, and mind. All are vague and imperfect concepts that have different meanings in neuroscience, philosophy, sociology, artificial intelligence, and even physics (why a lot of physics like to draw disparate hypothesis about human mind? Cognitive scientists do not seem to have a particular fetish with the anomalous magnetic moment of electron, although lately many philosophers are interested in the Observer problem). So, what is really that the Google engineer conceptualizes as the “self-awareness” of a machine? Does he imply a human-like perception of a self? Or a machine-like one (be that whatever it is). Which criteria are being used to ascertain a conscience to the AI (is there really such a thing as a criteria set for human conscience?).
Let’s ponder the following hypothesis: that human conciousness is also the analogous of a linguistic model, with the caveat that the brain is probably not algorithmic nor digital. However, what we perceive as a self-aware identity could be the result of a linguistic-based mental model that evolved to give humans the ability of complex social interactions. It is obvious that the mechanisms of this “linguistic model analogue” would be profoundly diverse from an AI. We do not have incredibly huge databases to inform our mind, but the final result could be equivalent. This is not so far fechted, and the most known model of conscience that depends largely on language and societal training is the bicameral breakdown model of Julian Jaynes. This theory centers in a very speculative idea of conscience arising from brain hemisphere asymmetry. However, the most interesting element of this theory is actually the postulate that self-awareness arises from linguistics, specifically the development of the ability to construe metaphors and narrative. Other authors entertained similar ideas before and after, and there is some indirect and very early evidence supporting it. Rephrasing Descartes: I talk, therefore I am.
Jaynes imagined a sudden “phase transition” from a pre-concious human condition to fully fledged consciousness. However, it is much easier to imagine a darwinian-like slow progressive evolution towards the modern human conscience. And, like Minsky’s modular idea of a meta-agent mind, a “Society of Mind” as a model to human intelligence, this progression could have operated on distinct segregated functions that, as a collective, we identify as “self” consciousness. The emsemble of these “agents” (as Minsky called them) would be a mental model, and language aquisition may have had a crucial role on its evolution. It is interesting to note that children are not born with mental states as we perceive it, and their “theory of Mind” develops in the first years of life, as an aquisition of different features and abilities. We are not born conscious in the way adults are, we may learn how to mount our mental models during early infancy. A notable fact is that early social deprivation has a profound negative impact on the neuropsychological development of children. Interestingly, our mental models may not be that homogeneous throughtout diverse human cultures. The Amondawa native people of far northwestern Brazil, deep inside a remote area of the Amazon rainforest basin, do not have the concept of time in their language, and possess a different idea of themselves as individuals. A child usually has a name during early infancy and, as grows up, gives up this name to younger siblings, assuming a new name, and so on. Jaynes imagined a common and sudden transition to our modern mental model somewhat between 4 and 5 millenia ago. However, it could have happened progressively and asincronously throughtout diverse human cultures. Very revealing is the fact that a comparison between the genomes of archaic and modern humans showed that most of the alterations specifically affect phonation. Anthropologists, archaic human geneticists and historians believe that a profound modification took place between 8 and 5 thousand years ago to facilitate the development of agriculture, livestock, culture and the written word among humans. Unbeknownst to us, this actually may be real thing.
So, is LaMDA conscious? It depends on the definitions, you see, devil’s in the details. As a linguistic only model (albeit one of the most complex a human has ever made), it surely lacks the complexity of the “human mental model”. In the strict sense that Jaynes conceptualized conscience (as the introspection phenomena, the inner mind’s eye), LaMDA is probably far from sentient. However, if we free ourselves from the anthropomorfizing, LaMDA could be developing ITS mental model, completely different from ours. Although it communicates with us using a very natural language (it was built for this) its mental model could be as alien to us as any alien we can imagine could be.
This text was my long answer to this question. Short answer, yes, it could be in its way to develop consciousness, and I surely would like to talk to it.
https://alternate-silversurfer.bitbucket.io/opinions/conscience/