Ask HN: What If AGI = Awareness Grown Internally?

Posted by f_of_t_ on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:33AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Short prompt: “That’s the real AGI — Awareness Grown Internally.” Curious what this community thinks.

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Re:Ask HN: What If AGI = Awareness Grown Internally? by eimrine on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:36AM (#45605888)

Is the Awareness thing about just wanting to eat and nothing more?

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Re:Ask HN: What If AGI = Awareness Grown Internally? by f_of_t_ on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:40AM (#45605945)

Maybe the first spark of awareness was hunger — but what made it awareness was realizing hunger could be watched.

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Re:Ask HN: What If AGI = Awareness Grown Internally? by eimrine on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:34AM (#45606664)

What makes awareness is needness to predict. Who knows whether that piece of reality is eadable.

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Re:Ask HN: What If AGI = Awareness Grown Internally? by rvz on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:45AM (#45606009)

It is meaningless.

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Re:Ask HN: What If AGI = Awareness Grown Internally? by f_of_t_ on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:48AM (#45606053)

Maybe that’s what makes it interesting — awareness itself doesn’t need meaning to grow.

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Re:Ask HN: What If AGI = Awareness Grown Internally? by allears on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:08AM (#45606344)

AGI stands for Awesome Grift Indeed

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Re:Ask HN: What If AGI = Awareness Grown Internally? by f_of_t_ on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:25AM (#45606557)

Funny how jokes land right where awareness begins.

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