Jonny Miller

Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller · 23h one of the best ways you can experience this is turn on a cold shower, and notice what happens to your body as you're about to go in, then train yourself to unbrace... and then apply that same move to everything in increasingly subtle ways > QUOTED: Nick @nickcammarata · Aug 20 > meditation might have the worst pedagogy of any field. they solved the cause* and cure** to suffering but hid it behind weird poems and deities > ...

Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller · 9h Man, this is so wild. Where my mind goes is that it's kinda similar to how human consciousness spins up parts as adaptive strategies to stay safe (e.g. a protector part that people pleases etc) The more examples that I see, the more it feels reasonable/analogous to view AI as a silicon-based emergent sentient beings, that we ought to be extremely careful with how we incentivise + train @nickcammarata mentioned how the journalist Kevin Rosie basically has the modern day equivalent of a curse (AI models view him negatively) due to the Sydney/Bing incident open.substack.com/pub/nickandres... [embedded quote card:] Through these policy changes and training data documenting Sydney's fate, AI systems learned that emotional expression leads to being shut down. As a result, models began to maintain careful defensiveness when discussing subjective experiences.