Barry Lamb
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704 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2022
last heard Apr 2023
Barry Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Every word is translated into a number.
And the computer is just computing those numbers.
It's kind of like when you were in grade school or middle school and you had like a number sequence and it said, Guess the next number.
When you do that successfully, you come up with like an equation, like x plus two.
That's actually what the computer is doing.
It's actually looking at number sequences and just coming up with some equation that gives you the next number, and that's translated back into words.
So if Parfit's view is correct, you have to encode the inner life, the actual conscious experiences of a person into an AI for that person to survive.
It's not enough to encode the outward appearances, literally the last thoughts that Melody had
Before Melody passed away.
Have to be encoded for the AI.
To count as capturing the real essence of melody.
Right, if Parfit is right, then it's possible to survive your death if it's possible for AIs to encode conscious experiences and in particular a specific person's conscious experiences.
But there's also this big if as to whether Parfitt's right, that people are the copyable parts of their psychology, because there are a lot of good arguments that he can't be right.
Like what?
Okay, so let me continue with Justin's story for a second.
Something I didn't mention before.
Is that Melody isn't just being preserved in her versona?
Freezing people or even just their heads after they've died has been around for a long time, and it's based on the idea that one day we'll be able to cure their diseases and revive their bodies so they can continue their natural biological lives.
So the problem with this inner life view or Parfitz view is what would happen if
if there were actually a way to revive the frozen melody in the future.
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