If it’s marked on a map I consider it a bad spot. I just browse terrain maps for nice looking locations and then hike there to see what it’s like in person. If there are signs of other people having stayed there in the recent months then I go somewhere else.

Admittedly I have the luxury of free to roam laws so I can camp quite literally where ever I want.

AI is more than just LLMs. AlphaFold is an AI that figured out protein folding and it is not an LLM.

There are multiple ways to be “unconscious.” Head trauma, sleep, general anesthesia, fainting, coma - for example.

The experience varies wildly: from absolute nothing under general anesthesia to extremely vivid stuff during sleep.

The interesting thing about general anesthesia is that it’s quite unlike dreaming. It’s like you’re just instantly teleported into another place and time without any sense of time having passed in between. You were effectively dead for a few hours from everyone else’s perspective, but for you there was no gap at all. It’s not like there’s a blank section in the film - rather like someone entirely cut out that part and you just jumped instantly to the next act.

I can’t help but wonder if something similar happens when you actually die. By definition you cannot experience being dead, so what if your consciousness just jumps over the being-dead part and continues from whatever is next? Even if there’s a million-year-long queue before you get to respawn, that would still happen instantly from your subjective experience. Perhaps death is only for your physical body, but your consciousness can only continue to have experiences wherever there are experiences to be had.

I think this idea is called quantum immortality.

I think the consciousness they’re talking about here is the subjective sense of something happening - that it feels like something to be. The fact of experience itself. Unconsciousness in the medical sense doesn’t necessarily mean the end of experience.