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Jack's Lab

Jack Thompson

Princeton student researcher in philosophy of mind, digital sentience, & AI alignment.

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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...

4 days ago
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Illusionists should try to build hedonium

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“Hedonium” is a theoretical, minimally conscious substance optimized for experiencing happiness. Imagine a mind pared down to the bare essentials required for having happy experiences, instantiated as cheaply as pos...

9 days ago
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Can brains suffer?

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One of the misconceptions about illusionism is that it denies the reality of conscious experiences. It is only meant to deny that conscious experiences have special metaphysical properties like privacy, ineffability, intr...

a month ago
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Complexity is a cop-out

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I lean illusionist and preference welfarist. Should I be nice to my thermostat? It has a goal (temperature set point) and sends signals to try to achieve that goal. Is it morally wrong to leave my windows open in th...

2 months ago
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Does illusionism kill sentientism?

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The argument

Sentientism is the view that moral patienthood is grounded in sentience: typically, the capacity to have positive and negative experiences, like pleasure and pain.

Why does one believe pain is bad...

2 months ago
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