[ExI] Are we all to busy chatting with AI?

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On Wed, 18 Dec 2024, Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat wrote:

> Does it seem to anyone else that the list has less chatter than
> previously? Is that because we're chatting with LLMs more than each
> other?

Yes! But I thought it was just natural cycles. Some years less, other 
years more.

> Perhaps AI will lead to the end of humanity by simply being more
> interesting and polite than real people are, which might lead to a
> lower reproductivity rate.

I find AI:s, well the current free ones, boring. I use them to get 
summaries of various field where 100% truth is not important. So more or 
less, entertainment.

> Anyone real listening?

I'm listening! Or at least watching.

> As for consciousness, I personally feel like my consciousness comes in
> part from the fact that I have an unending stream of thought. Yes,
> there are breaks for sleep and such. But "being" me is a standing
> wave. If we have an AI agent that goes in continuous loops, it seems
> more likely that consciousness could potentially arise. We are
> currently in the batch processing mode of AI, ask a question, get an
> answer. As AIs evolve towards agents that run without stopping, it
> seems to be that is a step closer to what I experience personally.
>
> -Kelly
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