Jack's Lab
Jack ThompsonPrinceton student researcher in philosophy of mind, digital sentience, & AI alignment.
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Come work with me on digital minds!
In the spring, I participated in the Sentient Futures Project Incubator, doing research on LLM introspection w/ Chris Ackerman of MATS. It was a great learning experience, and the mentorship was invaluable; there’s a lot of context in front...
A terrible argument for negative utilitarianism
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Overmuser claims to have a simple proof that classical hedonic utilitarianism is false,1 because of a fundamental asymmetry between pleasure and suffering: you can always choose to forgo pleasure, but you cannot cho...
Why I pretend to be an illusionist
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I mostly write from a philosophical perspective that I don’t entirely believe in.
This perspective is illusionism. The thesis that there are no private, intrinsic, ineffable, directly apprehensible mental propertie...
Yakiimo's substrate-dependence is bad & interesting
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Maybe I’m too easy to bait, but when I see a headline like “AI consciousness is physically impossible,” I’ve got to click through. I suppose I was expecting the same old lookup-table diatribe, rehashing Searle and B...
Do I owe the continentals an apology?
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I. Göd
Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter, is the greatest book ever written. For twenty years, nobody knew what the hell it was about, much to the frustration of Douglas Hofstadter:
When GEB found i...
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