Christ HN isn't what it used to be

Or if they're retards. The fact this still comes up is weird. A printing press isn't conscious, so why would an LLM be.

Don't forget, some of the bros are overly excitable. Like that twat who reckoned a Google model 5 years ago was conscious.

I know you're trolling, but when you watch a movie do you constantly narrate "A man in a dark coat has just entered the scene and just said '...'"? Of course not. You just watch it and you're obviously conscious (although your statement demonstrates shocking lack of self-awareness).

God knows what other nonsensical bullshit you believe.

1. a universal consciousness,

2. an energy that works through everything, and

3. that we can tap into both.

Been a slow journey from atheism to this, but mainly based on reading countless first-hand descriptions of enlightenment, mostly related to Kundalini experiences and psychedelic-induced. Reported experiences often fall into such similar categories, sometimes with the same symbology it's either something weirdly evolved in us (for no evolutionary advantage I can see), or some people gain access to deeper levels of reality.

Personal experiences for me that tipped it were:

1. My own Kundalini experiences (not the full-blown transcendental kind yet, but energy surges, meditation phenomena)

2. Receiving remote shaktipat, where energy was projected into me. One of the most surprising was when I was just lying down and a woman 10 miles away sent energy to me for half an hour. It was unmistakable, and wasn't possible she had subconsciously influenced me as she barely spoke to me until after the practice apart from telling me to lie down and relax.

Also, I recently worked out how to 'drop my mind' like Zen practioners talk about. Realised that's the core of concentration-style meditation. Good feelings start to arise on their own.

It's a personal journey (and ultimately the only one that counts), and the mind gets in the way, but each to their own.

Lots of video courses fail to actually teach you the fundamentals. I wasn't super impressed with sonic academy for this reason. It was basically "watch me do stuff". Groove3 was ok but tbh most dance production teachers on there seemed meh.

The absolute king is dancemusicproduction.com [1]. The guy who teaches has literally written the manual on dance music production (Snoman). He says he's been a ghost producer for Guetta and worked on Kylie Minogue, etc.

By all accounts if you want to learn from an actual pro who can actually teach all the fundamentals, it's this guy. Was so pleased when I finally found it.

[1] https://www.dancemusicproduction.com/oldpg/

I still can barely have a convo with it where it doesn't just make up total unworkable bollocks.

It can manage some coding though tbf, but again, not sure how far a completely non-tech user would find it.

They can't write and think critically at the same time. Then subsequent messages are tainted by their earlier nonsensical statements.

Opus 3.7 BTW, not some toy open source model.

"Why did you do that?" (Me, just wanting to understand)

"You're right I should have done the opposite" (starts implementing the opposite without seeking approval, etc.

But if you agree with it it won't do that, so it isn't simply a case of randomly rerunning prompts.

Surely you can see the first lab that solves this gains a massive advantage?

Seriously why would you think AI could read my mind and tell me what to do next without knowing my goals?

This sounds like the irritating tangential follow-on questions they ask on steroids. Generally irrelevant and take the conversation in a direction you don't want to go.

Dude cites study after study pretty much all with the same conclusion: Eating animal products is bad for your health.