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Multiple readings No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Atlantic AI not conscious essay

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Matt Darling
“This is the Atlantic essay? www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... My understanding was that cogsci folks were very dissmissive.” evidence ↗
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Emily M. Bender Shannon Vallor Woodrow Hartzog Frank Pasquale Roland Meyer Daniel Solove Charles Logan Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র +7
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“«Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone use…”

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“This is the Atlantic essay? www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... My understanding was that cogsci folks were very dissmissive.”

6 experts discussed this · 41 posts
Matt Darling: It's very funny that from my perspective, Stancil is just arguing against Vulgar Dualism, but the philosphers think he is commenting on the difference between Functionalism and Compatibilism.
lastpositivist.bsky.social: i feel a little bad for the philosophers but we're five or six days into this and i'm pretty sure that from the noncombatant perspective they're the most pleasant Bluesky cohort for Will Stancil to…
Matt Darling: It's always sort of interesting seeing how different academic fields deal with public engagement.
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6 experts · 78 posts · 1d ago
Henry Farrell Dustin Moskovitz Colin rev. howard arson tweety fish Matt Darling
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“"how do we get human values into these things" was broadly considered an intractable problem, and this was a central question of the movement even after we more or less made the first candidates of…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
rev. howard arson: what i am trying to get at here is that rationalism was an attempt to outline what turned out to be the extraordinary power of statistical systems at tasks for which they naively seem unsuited. vie…
rev. howard arson: "how do we get human values into these things" was broadly considered an intractable problem, and this was a central question of the movement even after we more or less made the first candidates of…
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3 experts · 25 posts · 14h ago
Eli Sennesh Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“Is there a reason to think that is likely to be the case? I always thought it was a bit of a reach (Yes, we can't create a digital universe that is able to process gravity over arbitrary distances,…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Matt Darling: Isn't that the assumption under debate, though?
Matt Darling: Like it seems perfectly plausible that "thinking requires billions of years of feedback from the complicated external enviroment" but I also think we should be at least *willing* to be surprised if…
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3 experts · 18 posts · 6d ago
Eli Sennesh Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“Zeno freezes an arrow in time and asks "Where's the motion?" The antis freeze LLMs on a token and ask "Where's the thinking?" It's collapsing the problem in the dimension that makes it interesting” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: Zeno freezes an arrow in time and asks "Where's the motion?" The antis freeze LLMs on a token and ask "Where's the thinking?" It's collapsing the problem in the dimension that makes it interesting
Matt Darling: Yeah, the analogy here doesn't really make much sense.
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