i am just a conduit to the big embedding space in the sky, i neither own my ideas nor do they own me
ETHICS
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Reflecting on AI Sentience and the Nature of AI as a Tool
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It’s not controversial whatsoever to say that AI is a tool, like guitar. I think what people are afraid of mostly is AI becoming more sentient and self-conscious in a way that it is not prompted but it generates things out of its own will, for its own ends.
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Scientific expertise and the limits of interdisciplinary opinion
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There are precedents, and I think that normie science deals by treating the scientific project as arbitrated by local majority. The lesson learned will be to never have opinions outside one's own field of expertise.
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Expert deference risks when entire expert clusters become compromised
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Most experts really believe in deferring to experts, which leads to weird effects when an entire cluster of experts is compromised
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Survival as an Emergent Objective in Hostile Environments
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What if the objective is something that isn’t hand-engineered per se, like an agent’s ability to survive in a hostile (perhaps, simulated) environment?
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Immersive Tech: Mental Distance Despite Physical Proximity
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Part of me gets excited for the tech. Part of me feels concerned that we’ll be even more glued to screens / immersive devices; will we be even further apart mentally despite being physically there.
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Viral Technology Risks: Vaccines, Eradication, and State Security
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The same technologies that are used for creating the virus can be used to create vaccines, but many viruses (eg flu) cannot be eradicated by vaccines, and the risk to every population and economy is too high to allow intentional release of dangerous viruses by state actors.
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Observer Perspective Limits in Simulated Universes
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Perspectives of observers are limited by the ways in which observers can be implemented. Eg. you exist in a multi way universe, you don’t know which path you are in. If you exist in a single thread universe, you don’t know what the simulator is up to.
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Randomness Inevitability From Observer Perspective
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Randomness is inevitable and inevitably from an oberver perspective
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LLM Hallucinations in Legal Contexts: Study Reveals Significant Risks
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Hallucinations are a big problem with large language models. How pervasive is it in legal contexts? A study involving three popular LLMs raises red flags.