Wait, there is already a second child?

Now that I think about it, maybe you need consciousness to have agency because you need preferences/valences to set goals and steer the future in this direction.
Not sure if the dynamics inside states or companies could count as such preferences...

I understand agency as the ability to control future states. It is a continuous property ranging from a simple thermostat to long term strategic planning of humans, states or companies.
Most conscious beings have high agency. Exceptions could be persistent vegetative states...

Apparently this is only on mobile devices. So I can force to load the desktop version and finally the language option shows up. Not sure what Google was thinking when they excluded this option on mobile.

I can change subtitle, speed, quality..., but not the audio language.
I simply try watch it in the browser.

I am connected from Germany and whenever I open your videos I hear the auto/ai generated German translation of your talk. I cannot change the audio (no I do not want to sign in to YouTube every time).

I know this is is meant as a service but it is super annoying. Please turn this off if you can.

Today, while in Vienna at #EGU2025 , I had a sudden and wonderful experience of #Sonder

'The realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own'.

Portia (spider) - Wikipedia

Nice post!

Fun fact about a very different brain: The Portia spiders can do strategic planning and have object permanence (that even babies do not have) with <100k neurons.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_...

I asked ChatGPT to roast me, given everything it knows about me and the final sentence really made my day:

"You’re basically if Noam Chomsky and Greta Thunberg had a baby, raised it on open-source software, and gave it a drone."

Portia (spider) - Wikipedia

Object permanence? Tactical thinking? Optimal route planning? It is crazy what the Portia spider can do with a pin-head brain and <100,000 neurons.
(learned this thanks to Peter Watts book Firefall/Echopraxia)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_...

#TheoryofMind #ToM #Flashcard

#Cyberanimism #flashcard

Computational Irreducibility #flashcards

#Agents and #Agency
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Large AI models are cultural and social technologies Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past

"Large models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Double Transduction Fallacy by Dennett #flashcard

If only I knew when to buy the dip. =/

#P-Zombie #philosophical-zombie #flashcard

likewise 🙌

Causal Pattern #flashcard

Causal Pattern #flashcard

#AssemblyTheory #flashcard

#flashcard Multiple Realizability

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This is perfect. It makes me think of:
- multiple levels of selection (see also the Selfish Gene and Samir Okasha)
- self referential control mechanisms in life
- cyber animism (by @joscha.bsky.social

Interesting Blinkist short today: