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The future of AI - what's the "realistic" view?
There are some people out there who pretend to present "realistic" views on AI where improvement is always going to be very gradual.
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Pawel Pachniewski

January 2023

Future posts
An overview and preview for subscirbers
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Pawel Pachniewski
The intersubjectivity collapse
A catastrophic or existential risk for any civilization that radically self-modifies their minds and develops AGI
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Pawel Pachniewski
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December 2022

Not artificially conscious
Why large language models like GPT-4 are not conscious
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Pawel Pachniewski
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OpenAI's ChatGPT
The genie is out of the bottle
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Pawel Pachniewski
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The Phantom Cognit
A future-proof term for a cognitive unit a mind tries to access, but is absent.
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Pawel Pachniewski
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November 2022

The subjectiverse: part 1
A term for the space of all possible experiences to be had
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Pawel Pachniewski
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The hard problem of metaphysics
From a complete description of the universe we seem to be able to exhaustively derive a totality of all facts about the universe, save for one key…
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Pawel Pachniewski

October 2022

Why Panpsychism doesn't pan out
Panpsychism is the idea that mind is everywhere and in everything.
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Pawel Pachniewski
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AGI Literacy
A decade ago AGI or Strong AI were terms that were mostly associated with crackpots. Those who work on the unattainable and bizarre goal of building an…
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Pawel Pachniewski
Hated features of biological existence
The strength of evolution is that it doesn’t know what it’s doing. The weakness of evolution is that it doesn’t know what it’s doing. So what you end up…
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Pawel Pachniewski

September 2022

Welcome to Mental Contractions
Mental Contractions is my blog on enhancing, extending, and exploring existence.
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Pawel Pachniewski
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