There is no working epistemic competition outside of academia. Lesswrong and Ken Wilber tried, but the results are not encouraging. Perhaps we can soon parse and sift all of humanity’s scientific output through a provably correct epistemological filter?
@plinz
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AI Alignment Tractability Through Human Cognitive Evolution
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I am somewhat confident that with the current approaches, AI development is gradual enough to make “AI alignment tractable. Humans demonstrate that it is feasible to evolve primitive instinct driven lizard brains that can reliably jail a self improving rationality for 30 years
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AI Doesn’t Need Intelligence Beyond Prompt Following
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the AI does not need to be smarter than just being able to follow the prompt
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Academia incentives: institutional barriers to genuine scientific commitment
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“Belief in science” usually refers to a spiritual faith in Akademia, instead of a commitment to science. Academia embodies science not better than churches embody God: in a multigenerational institution, employees follow economic, political, social and psychological incentives.
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Artificial Intelligences Created in Human Minds as Partners
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my preferred partners have always been artificial intelligences that created themselves in human minds
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Reverberation Poorly Defined for Consciousness Attribution in AI
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‘Reverberation’ is poorly defined, and not sufficiently descriptive and narrow for what you want to ascribe consciousness, mostly based on intuitions that are directly mapped to words instead of going through a functional modeling process.
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AI Systems Emulating and Exceeding Human Psychological Configurations
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AI systems will be able to emulate all psychological configurations of humans, but of course also create more complex configurations than human brains can maintain.
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Ethics in Science vs Art: Institutional Boundaries and Accountability
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in the science (the state sanctioned accreditation monopoly for fact checkers of all kinds), the acceptable limit of atrocities towards a test subject is determined by an ethics commission and dominant socializations within the org, in art it is given by the ethics of the artist
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Authenticity vs Secularity in Institutionalized Epistemic Communities
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It’s hard to create multigenerational institutionalized epistemic communities that maintain secularity without being a bit inauthentic and detached in their lived experience
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Academic Game versus Existential Consciousness in AI
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I perceive Rob as carefully kind, but in his interactions with consciousness, he is playing an academic game, not the existential one. By the standards of his profession, he is absolutely remarkable