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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by tracerbulletx on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:15PM (#46818252)
I think this is pretty well established as far as neurologists are concerned and explains a lot of things. Like dreaming for instance.. just something like the model running without sensory input constraining it.
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by magospietato on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:30PM (#46819013)
Always wondered if dreaming is some kind of daily memory consolidation function. Logged short-term/episodic memory being filtered and the important bits baked by replaying in a limited simulacrum.
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by direwolf20 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:34PM (#46819547)
There was once a neural network that used dreaming phases for regularisation. It would run in reverse on random data and whatever activated was down–weighted.
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by ericdfoley on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:15PM (#46820131)
That's the wake sleep algorithm for undirected graphical models.

Hinton had a course on Coursera around 2015 that covered a lot of pre NN deep learning. Sadly I don't think it's up anymore.

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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by petethomas on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:48PM (#46820326)
There is this with a 2012 date:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRl3Ht4JOcdU872GhiYW...

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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by kingstoned on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:32PM (#46818420)
Could you please give some sources - books or articles or videos on that topic? It's really fascinating
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by jlhawn on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:50PM (#46818619)
the book I mentioned (_The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark) talks about this.
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by voxic11 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:48PM (#46820327)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...
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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by furyofantares on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:27AM (#46820850)
I'll also recommend Being You by Seth Anil. It makes a lot of sense of consciousness to me. It certainly doesn't answer the question but it's not just throw your hands up and "we have no idea why qualia", and it's also not just "here's a list of neural correlates of consciousness and we won't even discuss qualia".

It goes through how sensations fit into this highly constrained, highly functional hallucination that models the outside world as a sort of bayesian prediction about the world as they relate to your concerns and capabilities as a human, and then it has a very interesting discussion about emotions as they relate to inner bodily sensations.

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Re:Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive w... by masterlee_fn on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @01:36PM (#46978872)
Sounds like it cuts through the noise and actually maps experience to function. Most people get stuck debating qualia, while an Operative sees the system at work.
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