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Venkatesh Rao's avatar

Somewhere in the composition, a plot B argument I made seems to have gotten dropped -- that the brain is in fact a kind of chinese room/p-zombie that's only "intelligent" when it is situated within a distributed memory via a boundary. Referenced Ned Block's access vs. phenomenal intelligence arguments, which are retained in the bibliography but missing in the argument.

I guess this is part of the hazard of AI-generated churn. It does tend to forget things.

But it's all there in the chat transcript, so not quite lost. Just not... staged into this essay :D

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Chris Samp's avatar

I've been living this. A couple months ago I changed my workflow to be much more keyboard-driven with cli, nvim, tmux and the like. Then I went on vacation for two weeks and forgot even what I had set up. I had to spelunk through config directories.

Actually, what was most helpful? I used ChatGPT extensively to figure out what and how to configure just like I wanted, so I could go back to that context and ask for a recap.

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