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Q&A with Elon Musk on launching 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more (Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/elon-musk-on-space-gpus-ai-optimus

Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and his manufacturing method
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> The only way to counter this is for humans to be more like humans, and less like machines. Which means we have to use the one thing we have that machines don't: our consciousness. We have to be conscious not only of our ideas, but where we got those ideas from, and whether or not we actually understand them, and actually know them. This, I suppose, is the role of the philosopher, but ideally we should all be a little bit philosophers.
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The fact that so many on the Fediverse remain so uneducated isn’t surprising. It only reveals how deeply bourgeois ideology continues to shape public consciousness, molding perception to serve the interests of capital, especially US imperialism.
Just as it took decades for many to see the war on terror for what it truly was, and even longer to grasp Palestine’s struggle against imperialism and settler colonialism, the same pattern will repeat.
I wholeheartedly reject imperialis…

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; The Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness
Eric Schwitzgebel, Jeremy Pober

⏰ Examining why some species developed consciousness while others remained non-conscious
#animals

Examining why some species developed consciousness while others remained non-conscious
What is the evolutionary advantage of our consciousness? And what can we learn about this from observing birds? Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum published two articles on this topic.

Love how some bullshit "AI" story is on top of The Guardian.
No, "AI" doesn't show signs of self-preservation.
"AI" does not exist. It doesn't have permanence, thoughts, reasoning or consciousness.

The quest to understand consciousness often feels like searching for an elephant in a room—we're certain it's there because we feel it, yet it remains stubbornly hidden from our scientific and philosophical grasp.
https://geneosophy.com/consciousness-the-elephant-in-t…

Consciousness, the elephant in the room
Consciousness is the holy grail of our quest to comprehend who we are. We feel conscious, there is no doubt about it. But understanding consciousness has been outside our reach so far. It is a strange state of affairs, we have elucidated so many mysteries about the world, thanks to

As we move into 2026, I want to be clear about where I stand. I support classic psychedelics like psilocybin, psilocin, Mescaline, LSD, and also cannabis, not because I think everyone should use them, but because I believe in the freedom of consciousness.
This isn’t a war on drugs; it’s a war on consciousness itself. The stigma surrounding psychedelics has been built and reinforced by decades of fear-based media and institutional control. Simply talking about these substances bout to s…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
TV on the Radio:
🎵 Caffeinated Consciousness
#TVontheRadio
https://theroundedsquares.bandcamp.com/track/the-rounded-squares-tv-on-the-radio-caffeinated-consciousness
https://open.spotify.com/track/14n7hUzSGcdhUjwLHEymag

CFP: New Histories of and on Black Consciousness https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141736/cfp-new-histories-and-black-consciousness

A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

The Mythology Of Conscious AI https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai/

The Mythology Of Conscious AI
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

NobleSole | Where Creativity Meets Consciousness
Join hosts Amy Sole and Ben Noble as they delve into where creativity meets consciousness. Each week they tackle a different topic about the intersection of being a creative and being a human...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpod…

The adjacent case https://barnes7.substack.com/p/the-adjacent-case "What is it like to be blind?", "The label 'visual cortex' names a developmental default, not a functional destiny", "Sensory substitution sharpens the point."

Beyond Nagel & Chalmers: Echolocation and Consciousness
Philosopher Barnes argues Daniel Kish's echolocation rewrites the hard problem of consciousness | Beyond Nagel and Chalmers.

RE: https://ohai.social/@tangledwing/115965151900320328
I love this article. Also, it's correct. People's common ideas of human memory, thoughts, emotions, consciousness, etc., etc., are wrong and/or misguided, and it confuses everyone that tries t…

Brains aren’t computers.
It’s self-evident:
🤖 Computers (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff that no brain can.
🧠 Brains (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff no computer can.
You know what’s really interesting?
That brains never evolved to be really fast and precise calculating things—which is exactly the raison d’être for computers.
(It’s either not necessary for consciousness or maybe actively detrimental to it?)

Anthropic overhauled Claude's "Constitution" to enable the AI to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/21/anthropic-claude-ai-chatbot-n…

Anthropic rewrites Claude’s guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have ‘some kind of consciousness or moral status’
The AI company is publishing a new "constitution" that teaches its chatbot how to think, not just what to do.

Every single day, the whole debacle with Blake Lemoine feels so much more quaint than the mass delusions we’re uncovering now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115817239878843124
In short: I believe in the freedom of consciousness.

The national press seem to be lurching into consciousness about what’s going on here in MSP.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/immigration-agents-protesters-roof-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.phsq.6oS2iAdJ067Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: Vila will join you later. Now make your goodbyes. Your lives, your consciousness are over. [Laughs insanely.]
[From above Vila hurries part way down the stairs.]
VILA: Avon. [hands him the gun]
DORIAN: No.

CFP: New Histories of and on Black Consciousness https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141736/cfp-new-histories-and-black-consciousness

I’ve decided to drain my ‘posts I’ll never post’ Apple Note. It’s a set of random idle tech-related thoughts I’ve had over the last 4 or so years that I wrote down to get them outta my head.
Buckle up for bad tech takes and stream of consciousness dumb thoughts.
https://www.codevoid.…

I'm happy this term is getting out there:
Language is not Knowledge
Language is not Consciousness

Russian GRU general Vladimir Alekseyev regains consciousness after assassination attempt: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/russian-gru-general-vladimir-alekseyev.html

found an academic arguing in defense of those liberian county flags imfamous for looking like archetypal mspaint doodles
https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3746/files/knowltonliberianflags.pdf

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

If I were running an AI company, I'd ban employees from implying any AI can have consciousness or sentience - for the simple reason that it would prompt comparisons to slavery.
https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay…

Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.

Finished "The Memory Collectors" by Dete Meserve.
A company has developed technology to transport your consciousness into your past, but only for one hour and without any precision as to when. Some go to see a lost loved one. Others to briefly escape the pain of future traumas.
Four strangers find themselves marooned on the same day and begin to discover a connection.
Strong start but devolves into an all too neat saccharine finish.
3/5 ⭐⭐⭐

The Memory Collectors
Four strangers time travel to the past and find themsel…

CFP: New Histories of and on Black Consciousness
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In other AI news, everyone's talking about the #ai #moltbook

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Wink:
🎵 Higher State Of Consciousness
#Wink
https://rabruzora.bandcamp.com/track/josh-wink-higher-state-of-consciousness-rabruzora-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cJ3yBgG1VzRpf4xrKsfB8

(paywalled) The sensorimotor theory of phenomenal consciousness https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/referencework/abs/pii/B9780443292583000021 "a way of reconceptualizing the notion of qualia so that the experienced quality of phen…

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RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115817239878843124
Legalize LSD, shrooms, and other classic psychedelics. This was never a war on drugs, it’s always been a war on consciousness IMO.

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I think this is interesting, from "Frontiers in Neuroscience" mag. New "HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article" by Joachim Keppler, head of Department of Consciousness …

Frontiers | Macroscopic quantum effects in the brain: new insights into the fundamental principle underlying conscious processes
Empirical findings indicate that conscious states are inextricably linked to long-range synchronized activity patterns that result from phase transitions and...

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