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by txrx0000 4d ago
These models are trained on human data, so they will behave like humans. And even for RL and self-improvement, we're still asking the question of "what would a human genius think about and how would they self-improve when given lo
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by txrx0000 4d ago
You say regulation is worth trying, but ignore the reality that the government is itself misaligned with the average joe unless we're able to keep it in check. We can't right now. Recall the PRISM program exposed by Edward Snowden
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by txrx0000 17d ago
In a materialist world, the difference between our consciousnesses can be explained as matter cluster A (my brain) being different from matter cluster B (your brain). I understand the mind-body problem, that's why I made the distinctio
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by txrx0000 19d ago
What I meant was that even if I am a lone mind that is dreaming up a universe, I am dreaming of living as a human inside a material universe. Materialism can be nested into solipsism in this practical manner, where my solipsist self is the
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by txrx0000 20d ago
These are good intuitions. I'll add some more: Orangutans can drive a golf cart, there are videos of that from the pre-AI era. General anesthetics that work on humans also tend to work on them. There is just a smooth gradient of brain
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by txrx0000 20d ago
If by "consciousness" you mean the thing that goes away during general anesthesia, then panpsychism is very unlike solipsism and can be easily refuted by the fact that anesthesia works. If it isn't that, then we're talki
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by txrx0000 20d ago
One's own consciousness is indeed the starting point of inquiry, but I don't think the claim that other people are conscious lacks empirical evidence (assuming a practical materialist stance here). We just don't think about
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by txrx0000 20d ago
> But look closely. Redness, heat and that sense of self you have are inherent to your own perspective. These things are all real, but at the same time there is nothing objective about them. There is not even anything objective about th
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by txrx0000 28d ago
I should further clarify, this is a materialist stance. But it's the only practical stance to take anyway. And I will offer the explanation for why this is in first person language because it only makes sense that way. Take it and appl
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by txrx0000 29d ago
What mistake did I make? You've correctly pointed out how Markov models and modern LLMs are similar in a way, and how modern LLMs don't have full agency. But this doesn't rule out the possibility that Markov models are very s
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
This one is relatively easy to answer. There are things we can say about what death feels like: 1) You'll be going back to the state before you were conscious, before you were born. Think back to when you were a baby. It feels like bef
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
I was not claiming that LLMs are conscious, just that they could be and there is no proof either way, yet. We should seriously starting considering this and begin research in this direction, because AI systems are becoming increasingly huma
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
Ok, then let's revise the definition to dreamless sleep or anesthesia.
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
The last time I dreamt was in April. I'd make a note about it in my day log txt file when it happens. It's not the same as a normal night's sleep, and I would remember it. But I assume not having REM sleep for the past 4 mont
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
It feels very different to me. I have a dream perhaps once a year, and it's nowhere near as vivid as real experiences. Dreams don't have much color, shape, or audio, just a blurry mess where I could barely make out things resembli
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
I've been under general anesthesia, but it does not feel too different. I'm dead when sleeping, and basically never dream. I should have said "dreamless sleep" in the earlier comment to be more precise because dreaming i
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
Perhaps it's because I almost never dream. Sleep feels almost just as dead to me. Case in point, I think we're probably talking about slightly different phenomena even when we talk about the same linguistic definition of conscious
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
I'm thinking out loud and pointing out the difference to avoid confusion, and also trying to invite discussion around the colloquial def, because I think the colloquial def is the most important/useful one.
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
When observed by a different conscious being, yes. But from the inside observed by oneself, it feels quite similar, besides the fact that sleep is initiated by oneself, and the wakeful state transition for sleep is more gradual than for ane
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
If by "consciousness" you mean the thing that goes away when we sleep, how are you so sure that there's not a conscious thinker in the machine? That seems like a hypothesis rather than a proven fact as we don't know what
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
The article's definition of consciousness is precise, but it's not what people are referring to in most cases where the word "consciousness" is used. Of course, a word can have multiple definitions. But colloquially, whe
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
Suppose the upside is as Dario claims, very positive. Why should frontier companies be the ones controlling access to the model weights and gatekeeping research? Shouldn't you be giving it to everybody as quickly as possible? It's
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
Suppose the tech is real, I do not want Anthropic/Dario to hoard it and be my cancer-curing messiah. Release the weights and do research in the open. People will save themselves if you give them the means. The bio/cyber/align
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
The planet is teeming with non-mirror things at every trophic level. The mirror bacteria has to somehow perfectly dodge all of the countless non-mirror things that can kill it (even unintentionally, like a byproduct molecule that just happe
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
Why assume that mirror life will somehow have a magical advantage over normal life and take over the world? If being opposite is what makes it exceptionally dangerous, then normal life would also be very dangerous to mirror life. The entire
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
Please don't do this. We're currently on an ok trajectory. You will end up creating exactly what you fear if you centralize compute and alignment efforts. Pretrained base models are already somewhat aligned to humanity by default
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
I was agreeing with you that age verification is not the way to go, but your solution to "make the platform safe for everyone" would centralize the power to determine what is/isn't safe in the hands of the government and
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
That's still treating the symptom. Regulating the entire Internet's platforms would end up creating a surveillance state. And the big companies would find some way to worm out of it, or simply treat the financial consequences of b
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
Parents generally have their own children's best interests in mind. If you personally have kids, feel free to delegate responsibility to someone else, since you believe that you're shitty to your own child. But you do not get to d
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by txrx0000 1mo ago
The video is not AI-generated. Animal intelligence is closer to human intelligence than many people would like to admit, and evolution did not make any sudden jumps. I wonder what happens if you give it a neural interface and map its brain

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