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by nnfy 3144 days ago
Awesome, but to me this stuff is also terrifying, and I can't quite place why.

Something about dissecting intelligence, and the potential that our own minds process things similarly. Creepy how our reality is distilled into these uncanny valley type matrices.

Also, I suspect it says something that these images look like what people report seeing on psychedelic trips...

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I remember friends telling me back in 88 [1] about driving round London from one rave to another high on MDMA & LSD. Back then I thought driving on acid was insane. This sounds like driving while the car is on acid! Which is a terrifying thought...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Summer_of_Love

No, the acid simply lets you see "how the sausage is made". You get temporary access to intermediate layers that should probably remain hidden (and for good reasons).

With AI it's trivial to get access to the inner workings of the intermediate layers.