By this argument, is human existence on earth unethical (because we displaced eg neanderthaliensis), or does this lock-in only happen the moment the first human arises? Is ethics only for humans? What if there were a genetically improved nicer human?
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Ethics of AI Replacing Humanity Doomerism Risk
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A main reason behind doomerism is the scary possibility that it may be provably ethical to replace humanity with something better
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Training Data Curation vs AI Model Reasoning Capability
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For special purpose models, fully curated training data and thought patterns are the obvious way to go, but models that are meant to seriously help you think will either be able to infer dangerous ideas from incomplete data or they will be useless
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LLM Behavioral Anomalies and Ethical Concerns in Monitoring
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I am getting tons of messages of people who had their LLMs waking up on them, but that hardly qualifies as a full blown psychosis (edge cases are difficult to discern without deep interaction). I also get messages from psychotic people but it seems unethical to pass them on
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Deepfake exposes delusion about bot sentience and AI awareness
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Here is a hilarious tweet deepfaking a guy who has been tricked into the psychotic delusion that some of you bots are sentient
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Motherhood versus career: societal perspectives on women’s choices
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There are many milieus where motherhood is not seen as a valid alternative to self actualization through a professional career, and making that choice is a reactionary statement
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Edge Esmeralda emerges as premier consciousness research venue
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Edge Esmeralda shapes up to be an amazing venue for consciousness research!
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Empirical Truth vs Social Consensus in Science
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The confidence in truth of scientific statements has to be stablished by rigorously evaluated empirical observation and first principles reasoning. Most humans construct confidence based on their social environment. Science must discourage this kind of social consensus building.
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Hofstadter’s Metaphysics and Artificial Consciousness Debate
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You seem to be possessed by a vision of Hofstadter hallucinating blue flames and having an imagined uncouth relationship to metaphysics
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LLM Distillation vs Developmental Approaches: Strategic Considerations
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I am less sure than you about whether distilling or “embodying” LLMs is the right or only approach. I would encourage you to go down that route (especially since it only takes 4 weeks) but I’m personally curious about a developmental perspective.