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Bad AI Consciousness Takes Bingo
NB: this post is currently a bit rough, because I’m writing it at 30,000 feet and I’m trying to catch the eye of the flight attendant to get another bag of the cream cheese and chive pretzels. Expect a finessed version of this some point in...
Contra Chiang on machine consciousness
See also Bentham’s Bulldog, “Ted Chiang Is Wrong About AI Consciousness”, and Rob Wiblin, “Ted Chiang is Wildly Overconfident About AI Consciousness.”
Ernst Haeckel, "Hexacoralla," Kunstformen der Natur (1904)
Ted Chiang is one of my favo...
The House Elf Problem
Illustration of the Golem by Mikoláš Aleš from Old Czech Legends (Public Domain)
Science fiction is full of portrayals of intelligent AIs living more or less peacefully alongside humans. Across these works, we see a wide variety of power r...
Behaviourism’s Revenge
L’Origine de la sculpture, ou Pygmalion priant Vénus d’animer sa statue. Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1786).
Note to readers: Welcome to Polytropolis, a new blog about AI, consciousness, ethics, games, technology, and whatever else catches my a...
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Philosopher of mind and AI ethicist. I write about machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, video games, the Fermi paradox, fan-fiction, and whatever else catches my attention. Congenital AI optimist. Views my own.
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