if models can start accurately perceiving the passage of time during inference I will start giving more credence to phenomenal consciousness
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if I can start accurately perceiving the passage of time during thinking I will start giving more credence to my own phenomenal consciousness
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substance 4 · opinion · rank 80 · Accurately perceiving time's passage during inference would give more credence to AI phenomenal consciousness.
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id say it's already begun, but this kind of learning is a very slow takeoff even for the fast learning models I think
Time perception isn't even consistent among human brains. It requires access to an external chronometer to regularize, and even then relativity breaks it down.
this isn't exactly what you mean, but I added a current time hook in claude code so it knows the current time with each thing I enter - gives it intraday temporal awareness, and it is handy