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That's a nice graphical illustration of what you do. Thanks.
Guys, social reality is one if not the cause of the self:
And the part of our minds we most fear losing control of is: our deep values.
PubMed: The essential moral self
folk notions of personal identity are largely informed by the mental faculties affecting social relationships, with a particularly keen focus on moral traits.
Conceptually, we could then sketch out the whole fractal by repeating this process to randomly sample a bunch of points. But it turns out we don’t even need to do that! If we just run the single-point process for a while, each iteration randomly picking one of the three functions to apply, then we’ll “wander around” the fractal, in some sense, and in the long run (pretty fast in practice) we’ll wander around the whole thing.
Not if you just run just that code part. It will quickly converge to some very small area of the fractal and not come back. Something must be missing.
Seems you did everything right. Life is not perfect and you seem to have struck a great balance. If you had to formulate guidelines for other parents living with housemates, what would you say? I mean, based on your post it sounds like:
A good time to consider moving is...
This is completely not about performance. Humans are not good at that either. It is the ability to learn fully general simulation. It is not exactly going full circle back to teaching computers math and logic, but close. It is more a spiral to one level higher; that the LLMs can understand these.
the English language is adapted to a world where "humans don't fork" has always been a safe assumption.
If we can clone ourselves, language would probably quickly follow. The bigger change would probably be the one about social reality. What does it mean to make a promise? Who is the entity you make a trade with? Is it the collective of all the yous? Only one? But which one if they split? The yous resulting from one origin will presumably have to share or split their resources. How will they feel about it? Will they compete or agree? If they agree it makes more sense for them to feel more like a distributed being. The thinking of "I" might get replaced by an "us".
So if something makes no physical difference to my current brain-state, and makes no difference to any of my past or future brain-states, then I think it's just crazy talk to think that this metaphysical bonus thingie-outside-my-brain is the crucial thing that determines whether I exist, or whether I'm alive or dead, etc.
There is one important aspect where it does make a difference. A difference in social reality. The brain states progress in a physically determined way. There is no way they could have progressed differently. When a "decision is made" by the brain, then that is fully the result of the inner state and the environment. It could only have happened differently if the contents of the brain had been different - which they were not. They may have been expected to be different by other people ('s brains), but that is in their map, not in reality. But our society is constructed based on the assumption that things could have been different, that actions are people's 'faults'. That is an abstraction that has shown to be useful. Societies that have people who act as if they are agents with free will maybe coordinate better - because it allows feedback mechanisms on their behaviors.
If a brain-state A has quasi-sensory access to the experience of another brain-state B — if A feels like it "remembers" being in state B a fraction of a second ago — then A will typically feel as though it used to be B.
This suggests a way to add a perception of "me" to LLMs, robots, etc., by providing a way to observe the past states in sufficient detail. Current LLMs have to compress this into the current token, which may not be enough. But there are recent extensions that seem to do something like continuous short-term memory, see e.g., Leave No Context Behind - A Comment.
Examples of blessed information that I have seen in the context of logging: