lkadjal

I think the issue here is, you probably can't apply the same logic to consciousness.

It's the medium through which we understand, comprehend and chip away things. It's the medium in which the world appears. It's the medium in which "you" exists or think exists.

Extraordinary evidence is required to make a claim that firing of neurons, which we perceive and understand through consciousness is what causes consciousness.

> What is consciousness? The firing of a gazillion synapses you will never fully understand.

Hmm. How do you know this is the case if you don't understand it? Magical thinking?

Just build something useful. Your users don't care. Even PHP is good enough if you know what to build.

If you don't, focus on pointless things like Bun vs Node vs Deno, get some dopamine hits and fool yourself into thinking you are being productive.

> Why would anyone want to help Apple build a platform that they will then use to undercut you?

Awesome. I will build some apps and make the 30% then. Even if it's short term it's still a lot of money. Thanks.

> Be audacious. Most people who are talented or smart are scared of doing things. I’m not sure why that is, but it’s more often than not the case.

Because they are book smart. As in raised in right conditions and sent to the right schools.

Also not smart enough to actually realise they will die one day and contemplate on that.

They are focused on resume and status building as if they are eternal. Common traits involves plugging a lot of keywords while talking, posting a lot on twitter/linkedin/instagram etc

If they do realise their own mortality they won't be so scared and not afraid to do anything meaningful.

Obviously there is no you. Just the experience. I thought that was pretty obvious.

> There is also zero "evidence", by this extremely restrictive standard of "evidence", for existence of any consciousness aside one's own.

Yes. That is correct.

> This rhetorical strategy thus has a weakness: who or what exactly are you trying to convince?

Ego dissolution/self realiszation takes time. It's my goal in life. But haven't achieved yet. But your comment do point that I should not waste time on engaging in things like this which builds up the ego more.

> In this light consciousness also makes more sense to me, although consciousness feels more like a by-product, our (human) ability to hold an internal model of the world in our minds and interact with it, is pretty advanced.

You can generate all kind of sentences like this all day you want in your consciousness. That does not make it any true.

There is zero evidence for existence of physical matter/materialism.

The only thing we know for sure that exists is consciousness.

And you suggest the complete opposite with zero evidence.

We are not anywhere close to creating a conscious AI. An AI without humanity is completely pointless unless it is capable of building a conscious AI which I doubt it is.