A philosopher writing at the intersection of the philosophy of mind and technology
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Researchers Are Challenging AI Consciousness Claims: The Backlash Shows What I Call ‘Silicon Science’ in Action
Seth, Block and Tononi argue that AI isn’t conscious. The backlash illustrates my argument that ‘silicon science’ has the burden of proof backwards.
A recent article in nature by Anil Seth, Ned Block, and Gulio Tononi argues that AI isn’t...
October Reading Round-up
Welcome to the October 26’ reading-round up!
Welcome to the October 26’ reading-round up! Here’s what’s in store this month
LLMs Can’t Feel Pain
Do LLMs Have ‘Pain States’
A recent paper claims that LLMs have a ‘pain axis’, that is, a direction in the models internal activation space, i..e, in the internal vector space, that distinguishes pain related sentences from control sent...
AIs without Minds Now Has a Paid Community
This post is about my upcoming paid community tier, a post I’ll pin for future paid subs to read, and where I am laying out what I want the community space at AIs without minds to be. Get comfy and dig in! If you’re interested in an intenti...
‘The Mind is a Computer or LLM’: We Need to Talk About the Effect of this Simplistic View on our Relationships to our Own Minds
We repeatedly encounter claims that the brain is an LLM, or a computer, or very like one of these things. What effect does repeatedly encountering this debate have on how we understand ourselves? I think it’s worth asking, because, in my vi...
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Philosopher writing at the intersection of philosophy of mind & technology | Columbia PhD
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