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by GPerson 1mo ago
I hope you’re right. I worry that AI capability will continue improving, one nation will put AI in charge of their nukes because there will be some kind of operational advantage to this, and to achieve parity other nations will be forced to
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Well this is disturbing. Certainly well executed as an art piece.
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The explanation I have against solipsism is that I believe that physical things of similar kind have similar behavior, and brains are extremely similar to one another. This is compatible with my belief in substrate non-independence. > it
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I just feel like technology companies keep proving over and over that they are more than capable of forcing us into new behaviors regardless of our actual preferences. Once the domination is complete nobody will know what was lost in the pr
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by GPerson 1mo ago
No, thank you for engaging. The most naive versions of substrate independence have a hard time contending with Putnam’s thought experiment showing rocks are conscious (Chalmers has a webpage discussing this also); the idea is that a sequenc
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I’m not more offended than by the army of people here informing me that my IQ is low, so no worries. I don’t have the skill to express these ideas more succinctly, and I apologize for this. I’ve tangled a lot, so I can try to express some p
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Can we agree your reply is rude given than I have made a fair effort to explain my view to you already? This is not a simple topic and one should not expect the whole thing to come down to a tweet; neither is an accurate understanding of ev
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I was considering our interchange yesterday. I apologize for my rude manner in expressing my views. I do appreciate that you have the conscientiousness to engage with your detractors. From my perspective the whole AI Revolution has been der
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by GPerson 1mo ago
There is a distinction between two important concepts here. There is access consciousness and there is phenomenal consciousness . The actual paper published alongside the j-space blog post discusses the idea of access consciousness if yo
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by GPerson 1mo ago
It will be kind of surprising if neither global warming nor AI nor nuclear weapons knocks us back to a pre-industrial society in the next 200 years.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Okay so a conditional works like this. There is a proposition A implies B. This does not mean A is true or false. It means that if A actually were true, then B would also be true.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
It is quite common outside of the US. Actually I think other places are generally better with binge drinking in the late teenage years, but one of the few ways America really did seem to have a lead over the rest of the world in personal he
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by GPerson 1mo ago
> I've been trying to find ways to help there by consistently emphasizing that these tools amplify existing expertise and, if anything, make our skills more valuable than they were before. I do believe that to be true. I don’t under
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I’ll give you credit in my book for raising the questions. I find the answers lacking in an honest engagement with the questions however, which is worse than not answering them in some ways. It is not plausible that the answer to whether or
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by GPerson 1mo ago
By uncritical I was trying to convey something like “without awareness or concern for the consequences of one’s own actions” and “without concern for one’s moral responsibility”. You are a better writer than I am so I’ll defer to you on w
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Interestingly I don’t think this stuff is all bullshit and doesn’t work, and haven’t at least since 2022. My angle is that AI is powerful and harmful. Your work is in support of making it more powerful and more harmful, and looks a lot like
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Yes. Do you actually believe it is reasonable to take away from your blog posts a critical stance on AI?
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Someone who is disinterested in AGI does not make a hard transition in their career into uncritically promoting the products of the only two companies which have stated their goal is to create AGI. One example of this contradiction appears
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by GPerson 1mo ago
It’s not clear. It looks like model training may have a lot to do with uplifting their Chinese competitors whom seem so terrifying to them.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
What if they actually don’t release these models, like they said they wouldn’t, because they’ve proven themselves to be out of control?
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by GPerson 1mo ago
You don’t act like you don’t want AGI. You have a very strong track record of speaking out of both sides of your mouth in different settings.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
You are literally unable to hold a hypothetical in your head, just like in that study. It’s amazing. I’m trying to help you understand what this thread is about but you simply cannot do it. I didn’t read any of your post btw.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
“Anything I’ve proposed” You’ve proposed nothing since in one comment you make it clear you don’t know that there is a distinct concept called consciousness which refers to a first person experience and awareness, and bizarrely propose that
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by GPerson 1mo ago
We know that there is a concept corresponding to first person experience. A priori there is no reason that should be. Please think about this before dismissing it because it’s actually extremely important. What’s emotional is explaining to
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I understand that is what you’re doing, but I’m not sure why you’re doing it. Because I’ve explained to you multiple times I was just commenting that Bernie Sanders needn’t include this obvious point in the bill. However I guess he should s
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by GPerson 1mo ago
The reason consciousness is not defined in any reducible manner beyond “the lights are on” or “first person experience” is because it is an irreducible aspect of reality. Instead of seeing it for what it is you instead invent some trivial d
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Your definition of consciousness is wrong. The interesting thing is that there is a first person experience, and this is what is referred to as consciousness. This coincides with the perception of qualia, and is sometimes referred to as “th
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Usually when people feel passionately about their beliefs, in disagreement to your own, it is because they are unreasonable idiots, unable to contend with different systems of values.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Can’t wait until 6 years from now we learn they’ve been using ingenious watermarking schemes as a message board.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I have an argument for my credence but it’s typed above.

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