If you die, and the coroner takes your head and points it into the direction of the camera, do you think you have subjective experience?
@plinz
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Peer Review Credibility Crisis Exposed by Scientific Misconduct
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These poor sods, of course they will be banned forever. We are in their debt because they show us how thin the veneer of peer review can be
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Musk Twitter judgment: Political decision or legal verdict?
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You noticed that Musk fell from grace over Twitter and Ukraine. Is it obvious that the judge from Biden’s homestate who starts her verdict with the question whether the world richest man got overpaid did not make a political decision? Why not wait for arguments in the appeals?
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Midjourney Intelligence Critique Scaling Model Improvement Debate
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Thank you for documenting, I respect that. I felt that your claim was unsound, striking a pose based on an unsurprising improvement in scaling a diffusion model (while you actually know that Midjourney has less intelligence than an autistic tadpole). I decided to throw an egg at
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Ideas Possess Physical Universe Regions Philosophy
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We are not bodies, Jim. We are ideas who possess regions of the physical universe.
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How Machine Learning Games Compare to Human Learning
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Many learning algorithms work by letting the computer play games against itself or the world and distill strategies from evaluating the outcomes of these games, then follow these strategies. How is that different for your own mind?
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What is AI: Beyond Rational Analysis and Mind Dissolution
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I have read Lovecraft. The passage describes the impression an encounter with the Shoggoth makes on the mind of someone it blights: not the rational analysis of an observed phenomenon but a report of the partial dissolution of the observer’s mind. What do you think it *is*?
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AI Contracts Ethics: Smart Agents and Moral Responsibility
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Jim is smart enough to smell that he does not want to look, but is he righteous enough to be disinterested in the fine print of his personal afterlife contract?
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Identity and External Opinions in AI Ethics
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Why would the opinions of minds that you don’t value for their intentions matter to your identity?
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Performance gains agency when defining your audience
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The performance has only agency when you decide who your audience is