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The Conjecture of Strong Subjectivity — LessWrong
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (198+ words) If you assume pure subjectivity (it's unmeasurable and incomparable), there's not much to study or say about it. That'd explain by a selection effect why most researchers choose to focus/redefine to problems they can make progress on. Camp #1 has…...
The Coming of the Global Brain: A Review of "The God Test" — LessWrong
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (77+ words) I have published a brief review of Robert Wright's new book on AI and took the opportunity to discuss Teilhard de Chardin and the directionality of evolution:https://theanticompletionist.substack.com/p/the-coming-of-the-global-brainDiscuss The Coming of the Global Brain: A Review of "The God Test…...
Reasons to believe current AI models are conscious — LessWrong
1+ week, 1+ day ago (790+ words) There are a number of reasons to believe current AI models are conscious. I mean “conscious” is the sense of “is there something it is like to be an…...
The State of AI Consciousness Research — LessWrong
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1114+ words) Epistemic status: a survey, not an argument. I am agnostic on whether any current system is conscious; the claim is only that the question is researchable. This piece surveys the empirical research on AI consciousness. The premise of that research,…...
What if we actually want to solve the "hard problem of phenomenological consciousness" — LessWrong
1+ week, 4+ day ago (676+ words) Namely, he describes a stratification into Camp 1, people for whom neither the notion of qualia nor the claims that the Hard Problem of Consciousness is exceptionally difficult make much sense, and Camp 2, people for whom the notion of qualia is…...
A (Romanticised) Taxonomy of Thinkers — LessWrong
1+ week, 4+ day ago (547+ words) The dialecticianI crave contact and direct haptic feedback from the world, seeking it far beyond my nominal area of expertise. I engage passionately in discussions with others, even (or perhaps especially) with those I disagree with. I observe the world…...
The Banality of Takeoff — LessWrong
1+ week, 6+ day ago (433+ words) "In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another. I know you." — Nietzsche Of course, deep in my soul, I knew, or convinced myself that I knew, that society doesn't care about superclusters not because…...
NLAs read thoughts beyond the J-space — LessWrong
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1442+ words) TLDR: • * On Llama-3.3-70B, I found thoughts it cannot see that are actively steering its behavior; and Anthropic's released NLA (Natural Language A…...
Free will as a model parameter — LessWrong
2+ week, 3+ day ago (701+ words) I think machine learning has a better answer, and it is not a metaphor. The problem is that epsilon is still global, and still set by the user. We need something per-dimension and learned. Throwing in an equation for good…...
Why I'm a moral anti-realist but may be unable to convince you — LessWrong
2+ week, 3+ day ago (188+ words) Figure from Chapter 4 of Understanding Knowledge by Michael Huemer …...