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"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
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Some thoughts on the blog today on "humans are unreliable narrators too" as a common defense of AI mental-state language, and what I think it misses about the nature of reasoning or thinking or belief or intention as we understand these terms statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/202…
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AI as social technology - I gave the Astor Lecture at Oxford's Blavatnik School last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSE6...
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it feels increasingly surreal to read AI consciousness debates in an environment where most of US politics, society, and economy aggressively emphasize turning your brain off
anthropic played some stupid games and won a stupid prize
My thoughts on the meta-thread prompted by Scalzi's AI post is largely that fiction about robots and AI is largely fiction about people, much in the same way that Clever Hans the horse has proved (in animal psychology) that you cannot study animals in isolation from people
future world where LLM agents imbibe antivaxxer sentiment and resist updates: *system crashes* OpenClaw bot posts: "patched???"
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