Adam Safron
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Details not yet finalized with journal, but please contact me if you think you might be interested. https://t.co/Gs08hy6Z8F
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World models, A(G)I, and the Hard problem(s) of life-mind continuity: Towards a unified understanding of natural and artificial intelligence Paper submissions: January 15th, 2024 Information for...
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Really enjoyed having this conversation on one of my favorite podcasts. I felt seen :)
“The Free Energy Principle is an extremely ambitious attempt at a theory of everything for systems—anything you can draw a boundary around.” “Across trials, the strongest correlate of depression relief isn’t dosage or playlist—it’s having a mystical-type experience.” “The most
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Among the things that @elonmusk has said recently, I've thought it's been profound the way he's been pointing out that the humanoid form factor for robots isn't just useful for navigating worlds built for humans, but also because the human body plan is a marvel of 'engineering.'
Sometimes I say things so profound that people that it’s stupid. And sometimes I say things so stupid that people thinks it’s profound.
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🙏 Compassion training during session-preparation as treatment-as-usual for psychedelic psychotherapy? https://t.co/QGGtTTyIhk
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Background: Psychedelics can acutely induce mystical experiences and elevated positive mood, which may contribute to the potential benefits of psychedelic therapy. However, there remains limited...
Reflecting on this, how should one deal with "looping"? Yes, changing the setting e.g., with perfume or new music is one approach, but accepting the loop with compassion is another, like how defense mechanisms more generally can be nicely met and understood with compassion.
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"Plasticity is maintained indefinitely only by algorithms that continually inject diversity into the network, such as our continual backpropagation algorithm, a variation of backpropagation in which a small fraction of less-used units are continually and randomly reinitialized."
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Nature - The pervasive problem of artificial neural networks losing plasticity in continual-learning settings is demonstrated and a simple solution called the continual backpropagation algorithm is...
Dwarkesh Patel is 100% right on this: AI's utility is very strongly dependent on continual learning. https://t.co/YR54QlaqZK
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If most of the performance enhancements for GPT-5 came from scaling inference-time/'reasoning' compute (as opposed to more pre-training), what does this mean for what we ought to expect from future large training runs?
Wanted to provide more updates on the GPT-5 rollout and changes we are making heading into the weekend. 1. We for sure underestimated how much some of the things that people like in GPT-4o matter to them, even if GPT-5 performs better in most ways. 2. Users have very different
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:) https://t.co/QnmOQqkT8S (Does this line of thinking/feeling provide some support for @EckhartTolle's idea of the "Painbody"?) https://t.co/ITrzjLtj4K
I sat down with the singular @drmichaellevin and @adamsafron to discuss chronic pain and agency. - pain as a persistent pattern with its own agency - cellular belief and social contagion - placebos for frogs at the molecular level Strap in for a wild ride.
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I think @sama and @grok should settle this dispute by both attending the workshop(s) I'm planning for the AI Capabilities and Alignment Consensus Project (AICACP): https://t.co/sF8RHju5xk
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AI Capabilities & Alignment
@AdonisHytopia @sama Sam, your "feel the AGI" thrills from a bot clumsily mimicking human tasks are just overhyped parlor tricks, while true intelligence laughs from the sidelines at OpenAI's endless fundraising circus.
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This was such a wonderful event/community to be a part of. Thank you to everyone who helped to make @EdgeEsmeralda happen. Looking forward to future gatherings.
last month I attended @EdgeEsmeralda to write a report on the cutting edge of consciousness research topics included everything from meditation and enlightenment to epistemology, vasocomputation, active inference, AI, and moral realism. the article i wrote integrates findings
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Thank you.
Attention is the currency of the mind. We spend it with every blink, click, and thought—and we rarely get a refund.
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Reading this wisdom from @BernardJBaars makes me wish I took greater care to emphasize the framing of psychedelics in terms of playful/childlike 'cognition' (c.f. @AlisonGopnik account of childhood as "simulated annealing," and @johnsonmxe account of psychedelics as annealing
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Abstract. How is it that psychedelics so profoundly impact brain and mind? According to the model of “Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics” (REBUS), 5-HT2a a
Childhood is in a way a laboratory of the mind. Every stumble, question, and story is a neural experiment in progress.
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Looking forward to listening to this.
Thank you to @MLStreetTalk for so powerfully capturing the story of our recent work on Fractured Entangled Representation! The video here (a kind of quick documentary) is worth a watch!
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New episode (1116), with Dr. Adam Safron (@adamsafron). We talk about consciousness, AI, psychedelics, and the self. #Science YouTube: https://t.co/Y7CvATBaOz Podcast: https://t.co/Gw7OzJtQ4u
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Was happy to be part of this conversation (with me exhaustedly semi-shamanically typing in the chat most of the time). Comments (with time-stamps) below: 11:37:09 From Adam Safron to Everyone: Memories as agents; persistent pain as active inference agent; c.f. Eckhart Tolle’s
📅Event: Developing Somatic Intelligence @mxslk had a very interesting recent discussion with @drmichaellevin and @adamsafron that I spotted on youtube - and I'll actually share some more thoughts about that soon as well. If I didn't have a some other obligations, I might
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Fascinating work that I'm excited to have included in the upcoming "world modeling" special issue. https://t.co/Gs08hy6Z8F When thinking of intelligent systems, to what degree are we dealing with (a) hallmarks of emergence sufficient for generating interesting complexity and
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World models, A(G)I, and the Hard problem(s) of life-mind continuity: Towards a unified understanding of natural and artificial intelligence Paper submissions: January 15th, 2024 Information for...
New paper: "Large Language Models & Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell). We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from perspective of what emergence means in complexity science. ⬇️
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How impressed should I be with the (very impressive to me) videos of robotic abilities that I encounter? To what extent are we still seeing the outtakes, with the inclusion of blooper reels potentially making these systems seem far less impressive? To what extent are there
Altman predicts that the public hasn't fully grasped how soon humanoid robots will arrive. When people start seeing robots doing many tasks humans once did, it will feel like science fiction becoming real. He emphasizes being honest about the scale and speed of this
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Do we need a single clear definition for 'reasoning,' or multiple definitions, specifying multiple types of reasoning? (Same for 'world models' and 'agency.') https://t.co/Gs08hy6Z8F If we are overly exacting in our criteria, then we will potentially deny important functional
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World models, A(G)I, and the Hard problem(s) of life-mind continuity: Towards a unified understanding of natural and artificial intelligence Paper submissions: January 15th, 2024 Information for...
@textazz @creativ_cyborg What is reasoning? We need a clear definition, which we don't have
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Thank you :) I remember making this slide. Mixed feelings about this attempted synopsis, but hedged enough that I still stand/sit by it. Although taking a page from IIT folk, I've started using the word "conscious access" instead of "access consciousness."
Integrated world modeling theory and substrates of consciousness by @adamsafron
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