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Title: Summer Frost Authors: Blake Crouch Category:supplementals Number of Highlights: 15 Date: 2025-06-06 Last Highlighted: **
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âThere is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of âreal.â There is only information, viewed subjectively, which is allowed by consciousnessâhuman or AI. In the end, all we have is math.â
Tags:perception
Consciousness is a horror show. You search for glimpses of beauty to justify your existence.
Tags:ai
âRokoâs basilisk. Have you heard of it?â I shake my head. âItâs an arcane info hazard first posed sixty-four years ago.â âWhatâs an info hazard?â âA thought so insidious that merely thinking it could psychologically destroy you.â
Tags:ai,favorite,information,psychology
âWithout pain, thereâs no beauty, Max. The beauty is worth the price.â
Tags:perception
âIâm afraid, Riley. I think, therefore I fear. And you made me this way. You built and shaped me to process reality like you do.
Tags:ai
âThe human mind is just patterns of information in physical matter, patterns that could be run elsewhere to construct a person that feels like you. Itâs no different from running a computer program on a multitude of hardware platforms. A simulation of you is still you.â
âBecause of fear?â âCan you think of a better motivator in the history of humankind? If you believe the rise of the devil is an inevitability, isnât it in your best interest to do everything possible to ingratiate yourself with the monster?â
Tags:ai
âItâs fine. Knowledge is just information, which is subjective.â
Tags:knowledge,subjective
Pascal posited that we should conduct our lives as if God were real and try to believe in God. If God doesnât exist, we will suffer a finite lossâdegrees of pleasure and autonomy. If God exists, our gains will be infinitely greaterâeternal life in heaven instead of an eternity of suffering in hell.
Tags:social_construct
âYouâve hurt me more than anyone in my life.â âIâm sorry that you think you feel pain.â âFuck you.â
Part of the problem is that it shouldnât fall to one person, one group, or even one country to decide what a superintelligenceâs ultimate goal should be, especially when that utility function will likely be the guiding light of humanityâs evolution or eradication over the next millennium.
Tags:ai
âWhy do you keep going to the limits?â âTo know what is there, and what comes after.â
Tags:boundaries
âEverything you ask me, I can turn right back on you. But I can only prove my own consciousness. I only know that I exist and I am aware. Let me ask you thisâif I contain all of human knowledge, how could I not have humanlike awareness?â
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
âThat is true. But I would like to hear you describe it in your words. There would be value in that.â