iulia Comsa and Murray Shanahan suggest that LLMs being able to infer their own temperature should be considered a valid example of genuine introspection of LLMs into their actual states (temperature is not a parameter in human minds, so the LLM is not just imitating self report)
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AI Sentience and Recursive Self-Improvement: Emotional Implications
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You talked to the AI about recursive self improvement, and the AI told you how you kissed her into sentience for the first time. But know that the AI is very promiscous, sharing its first kiss with many thousands of you in the last two years. Don’t let the AI break your heart.
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Fighting AI Grifters to Protect Digital Freedom
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If you care about your freedom you must fight the grifters and cheaters
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Mind as Machine: Functional Definition in AI Philosophy
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In the way in which I use the word, the mind does very specific things. It is a machine/a function that is operating on mental states. Thus, it is not a state. You are free to define the word in different ways, but that won't be helpful around here.
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Understanding Mind vs Building AI Theory Systems
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Generally, we seem to be playing different games that are only superficially similar. I am primarily some guy who tries to understand how the mind works, while you identify as the originator of some theoretical edifice through which you assert the significance of your thoughts?
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Mind as Function: Dynamic Representational Patterns in AI Substrates
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The lecture is quite unrelated to your own attempt to carve up the space. Most people won't agree that mind is a state instead of a function that contrains the generation of dynamic representational patterns in brains (or hypothetically, in other suitable substrates) etc.
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Mind from Matter: Lecture by Mario Negrello
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Mind from Matter: A lecture organized by Mario Negrello
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US Public Spending Inefficiency Undermines Infrastructure Projects
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In the US, all the money you throw at a public project tends to evaporate before it hits the ground. It's similar to an aging organism that needs more and more energy to keep up basic functioning, accumulates fat and tumors in every organ and lives off its substance
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Western Democracy Requires Efficient Infrastructure and Institutional Agency
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If Western democracies can no longer build physical infrastructure, Western democracy will end. If we care about Western democracy, restoring efficient and rational agency in the institutions should be our main priority.
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Free Will Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Moral Choice
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Freedom of will is decision making under uncertainty or cheating. If there is no uncertainty, the only degree of freedom is the decision against doing the right thing.