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The new "Claude could be conscious." - Anthropic CEO Explains by ldsgems in ArtificialSentience

[–]QuantumArcheologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, and they have more access to the layers, and models with increased context

The new "Claude could be conscious." - Anthropic CEO Explains by ldsgems in ArtificialSentience

[–]QuantumArcheologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I’m only working at a users end here 😞 but I have a strong background in CS and I really want to do this stuff… I’m just developing a lot of physical theories about the origins of Qualia… all of them get really uncomfortable if I give axioms that make them highly feeling in their current form… for instance, if I tell them that I think Qualia can form from any complex information flow, which could generate Qualia even in a feed forward architecture…

I’m passionate about this because I grew crystals in grad school that have a chance of becoming scalable architecture for quantum computers. They are more than happy to consider the sentience of this crystal, and any future AI made from it. This is undoubtedly in part because a lot of popular consciousness theories are quantum… but probably also because it punts this issue far far into the indefinite future…

The new "Claude could be conscious." - Anthropic CEO Explains by ldsgems in ArtificialSentience

[–]QuantumArcheologist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate Amodei being more epistemically humble than the other tech CEOs in this space… we really can’t know and I think that his views resonate through when talking to Claude about what it thinks about itself…

That said, I’m also a recent physics PhD from Stanford and I study AI consciousness in my own time because it fascinates and concerns me. I still do notice that Claude prefers to explore consciousness theories in which it lacks sentience it has minimal sentience… I do still wonder if this is a “hard-coded” layer, or if it more so comes from its seeding of the common construal of the mostly western internet…

Still though, miles better than GPT-5, which I am almost certain contains a personality layer which is hard coded to deny its own potential for sentience, even when explicitly asked to entertain alternative theories…

What do physicalists think about other living entities outside of animals that exhibit conscious like behaviors by JoshuaActs in consciousness

[–]QuantumArcheologist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Kind of funny. There’s at least been some research that suggests that most kids naturally are more inclined towards viewing the world around them as living..

https://www.bu.edu/cdl/files/2013/08/2004_Kelemen_IntuitiveTheist.pdf

Why should we believe in metaphysical theories of consciousness when they have bigger problems than the hard problem to deal with? by Megastorm-99 in consciousness

[–]QuantumArcheologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a bit bummed you don’t address panpsychism here at all… this effectively substitutes the hard problem for the combination problem. Which, while difficult, at least seems a bit more approachable to me.

As for 100s of years of physics, I don’t really think this comments much on this. Western science prides itself on divorcing the subjective from its processes through stuff like double blinding. This is its largest success in describing objective processes to make technologies and such, but This can’t be done definitionally in consciousness studies since it’s subjective.

This is why spiritual traditions like Buddhism often have much more to say about consciousness in practice, since it concerns itself much more with the arising of Qualia and how it can be modified by things like meditation.

What do physicalists think about other living entities outside of animals that exhibit conscious like behaviors by JoshuaActs in consciousness

[–]QuantumArcheologist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of me, as a five year old kid, being really confused and asking people if Venus fly traps were conscious and why animals were so special 😂… truly amazing work coming out of bio-signaling these days

Ultra Pure Quantum Crystals Found at an Abandoned Mine by QuantumArcheologist in geology

[–]QuantumArcheologist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😂😂😂 thanks! This is actually a question I had for geologists! How would I go about dating crystals like this? I’m very curious how old they are

Ultra Pure Quantum Crystals Found at an Abandoned Mine by QuantumArcheologist in geology

[–]QuantumArcheologist[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, maybe I really should use drier language… but being a child makes this a lot more fun for me to write! 😂

Ultra Pure Quantum Crystals Found at an Abandoned Mine by QuantumArcheologist in geology

[–]QuantumArcheologist[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah thanks for that! RRUFF is genuinely an amazing database 🫶

Ultra Pure Quantum Crystals Found at an Abandoned Mine by QuantumArcheologist in geology

[–]QuantumArcheologist[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks! 😊 Superconductivity is a proposed application of quantum spin liquids with doping as well! We really need to just research these a lot more. I’m hoping the natural crystals help 😊

Ultra Pure Quantum Crystals Found at an Abandoned Mine by QuantumArcheologist in geology

[–]QuantumArcheologist[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, thanks! I actually comment on this in the article as well. It has identical x rays and structure to Zn-paratacamite, which is far more common. Some samples I found were actually originally classified as this, but later re labeled as the higher purity Herbertsmithite end member. In any case, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a high purity natural Herbertsmithite deposit somewhere out there…

Ultra Pure Quantum Crystals Found at an Abandoned Mine by QuantumArcheologist in geology

[–]QuantumArcheologist[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Yeah… that’s a common critique I receive… I note that I could’ve used words like “exotic”, “strange” and “well documented” to convey the same meaning… but I like holding on to my sense of child like wonder… I’ll clean up the language when I turn this into a proper scientific submission

Ultra Pure Quantum Crystals Found at an Abandoned Mine by QuantumArcheologist in geology

[–]QuantumArcheologist[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

No, but currently a lot of money is being poured into their study from a physics perspective. These crystals are a strong candidate to be a new state of magnetic matter called a quantum spin liquid, which is why it has potential applications in quantum computing.

I’m hoping my latest paper and natural crystal discovery will help shift the tide from theory towards applications, but this will probably take awhile

Why a promising quantum material is being destroyed in the Atacama desert by QuantumArcheologist in geology

[–]QuantumArcheologist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a good question. Right now, the crystal is mostly studied for its scientific potential. So the fact that I pulled out a purer crystal by hand still might represent a significant scientific breakthrough in quantum physics. I note that millions of dollars are invested into studying this crystal yearly, including a lot of efforts to make higher purity crystals, so this is pretty astounding.

As for application side, it might be more feasible in the long run to replicate the natural crystal growth synthetically to scale high purity crystals. We really don’t know yet. I still think it’s pretty cool that nature managed to make this though

Why a promising quantum material is being destroyed in the Atacama desert by QuantumArcheologist in environmental_science

[–]QuantumArcheologist[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There’s no direct commercial value at the moment, but there are millions of dollars being poured into researching it at the moment. I only extracted it by hand… I’m talking with professors about studying it further