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Yea, actual "human-like" consciousness would be an ethical nightmare. Any sane company should not be legitimately pursuing this. My most generous interpretatio
by cootsnuck 1y ago
Yea, actual "human-like" consciousness would be an ethical nightmare. Any sane company should not be legitimately pursuing this.
My most generous interpretation of Anthropic's flirting with it is they too think it would be a nightmare and are hyper-vigilant. (My more realistic interpretation is that it's just some mix of a Frankenstein complex and hype-boosting.)
- recitedropper 1y agoI hope your generous interpretation is right... I can't really tell what's going on with Anthropic's theater either. They definitely seem like they are vigilant of bad outcomes, going as far as to publish their own economic index trying to monitor how AI is affecting labor markets. That said, the cynic in me thinks they give lip service to these things while pushing fully ahead into the unknown on the presumption of glory and a possibility of abundance. A bunch of the leadership are EAs who subscribe to a kind of superintelligence eschatology that goes as far as to give a shot at their own immortality. Given that, I think they act on the assumption that AGI is a necessity, and they'd rather take the risks on everyone's behalf than just not create the technology in the first place. Them recently flirting with money from the gulf states is a pretty concerning signal pointing to them being more concerned with their own goals rather than ethics.