This seems to make a kind of basic error that is common among people who haven’t thought that much about consciousness. 🧵
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Derek Shiller
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Philosopher into digital minds.
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Prediction: with abundance, the wealthy will share anything that requires little sacrifice, which will include a lot of material goods. There will be tensions on how much to prioritize ecosystems and industry, with the wealthy favoring the former. x.com/robertwiblin/s…
Ordinary people likely won't be able to demand/keep a universal basic income after superintelligence.
The political economy is hopeless: they have nothing to offer in return and zero hard power.
The problem has been known for decades. Here are the solutions I've heard proposed:View quoted post on X
I think that in our culture, people feel licensed to have confident beliefs based on whims in some topics and not others. You can't be confident about how planes fly based on a thought experiment you came up with, but you can have arbitrarily strong beliefs about consciousness...
Just a quick note: there are very good reasons to doubt that the 'pain axis' is experienced as pain, even *if* models are capable of feeling pain. A few thoughts. More to come.🧵 x.com/camhberg/statu…
Appreciate @slatestarcodex spotlighting the pain axis work as a counterexample to @sapinker dismissing AI sentience concerns.
Hard problem aside/under severe uncertainty, if models exhibit functional distress states, why not simply avoid inducing such states unnecessarily?View quoted post on X
On one hand, leaning into human psychological terminology is problematic and encourages misunderstandings. On the other hand, avoiding it is often awkward: there are no obvious alternatives. In any case, a blanket ban doesn't seem appropriate on style grounds.
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.View quoted post on X
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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