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I've had limited experience (n~20) but no... that's not how it worked for me, interested in others' experiences.

"flying" was limited. I didn't have full control and sometimes felt dynamically pinned to the top of a 2D scrolling video game as if there were driver incompatabilities.

drifting off to sleep in a session, it was very disturbing- i felt like i was being dragged by my ankle across the bed before lucid dreaming began, "here it comes..."

Sometimes there would be ominious sounds/visuals that I could not influence that scared me so much I was glad I could wake up because it felt like a nightmare was approaching.

Two big tells I'm lucid dreaming: I'm with a group of people who can't answer a very obvious question ("why is the sky blue?") or, I look at my hand - as if it were LLM it absolutely does not render well... like a tree trunk with a bunch of branches.

Re:A Definition of AGI on Monday October 27, 2025 @05:50AM (#45719038)
Can't "awareness" in both examples be approximated by a random seed generator? Both the human mind and autoregressive model just need any initial thought to iterate and improve off of, influenced by unique design + experienced priors.
Re:Roc Camera on Friday October 24, 2025 @12:07PM (#45696026)
Samsung were also the ones who demonstrated a fatal flaw in C2PA: device manufacturers are explicitly trusted in implementation.

C2PA requires trust that manufacturers would not be materially modifying the scene using convolutional neural networks to detect objects and add/remove details[1]

1) https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/how-galaxy...