Jan. 17, 2025
Another day, another hangover, another brilliant mind trying to explain consciousness while I can barely maintain my own. Today we’re diving into Joscha Bach’s ideas about machine consciousness, and believe me, I needed extra bourbon for this one.
Let’s start with Bach himself - imagine growing up in a DIY kingdom in the German woods because your artist dad decided society wasn’t his cup of tea. Most of us were dealing with suburban drama while young Joscha was basically living in his own private philosophy experiment. No wonder he turned out thinking differently about consciousness and reality.
Nov. 23, 2024
Well, folks, it’s 3 AM, and I’m nursing my fourth bourbon while contemplating whether we’re all just bits in some cosmic computer program. Not the usual existential crisis that hits at this hour, but here we are.
Professor Roman Yampolskiy dropped a mind-bender recently that’s got me questioning everything - and I mean everything. According to him, we’re probably living in a simulation run by superintelligent AI, and the real kicker? We might be able to hack our way out of it.
Nov. 17, 2024
Let me tell you something about consciousness while I nurse this hangover with some Wild Turkey. Bach - not the composer, the AI guy - has been saying our thoughts aren’t really ours. Usually when someone tells me thoughts aren’t mine, it’s after I’ve had way too much bourbon at closing time. But this time, the man might be onto something.
Here’s the deal: everything in the universe is basically competing software. Not in some metaphorical “the world is a computer” way that stoned college freshmen babble about at 3 AM. I mean literally - we’re all just different programs running on various substrates, from carbon to silicon, trying to perpetuate ourselves.