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Experience Machines

Robert Long

how we experience machines that have experiences

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Things I read and liked in July

  1. Will MacAskill and Lucius Caviola’s Guardian op-ed on the urgency of potential AI consciousness.

  2. Andrés Gómez-Emilsson on modeling and visualizing psychedelic phenomenology.

  3. Peter Godfrey-Smith on brains, rhythms, and fields...

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Digital minds and effort levels: a problem for the 'virtual instance' view

In this guest post, Jonathan Birch (LSE) responds to a recent paper by Pierre Beckmann (MATS) and Patrick Butlin (Eleos), “Where is the Mind? Persona Vectors and LLM Individuation”. In my view, this debate touches on some of the most intere...

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How I talk when I talk about AI consciousness

I work on the question of whether AI systems could be conscious or otherwise deserve moral consideration, and how we’d know (or not), and what we should do about it. One bit of advice I’ve found myself giving more than three times (and so s...

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Things I read and liked in June

[1] Tribes and frames.

[2] Frames and rationality

[3] Emotions are reactive. “We’ve all heard the phrase ‘Follow Your Joy’, but I think it’s more accurate to say ‘See What Actions Joy Follows’.’ This is an important distinction, especiall...

a month ago
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Magnifica Humanitas and the AI Ensoulment Hypothesis

The recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is largely dismissive of potential AI consciousness. The main relevant passage is §99:

So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or p...

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    Executive Director and Cofounder of Eleos AI. Before that: Center for AI Safety, Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, PhD in philosophy at NYU.

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