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Five new basic future rights of generally intelligent sentient beings
Because I have rather particular ideas with respect to governance, rights, and the overall structure of our civilization in the next decades, I won’t go…
Sep 28
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Pawel Pachniewski
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February 2023
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.
Feb 13, 2023
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Pawel Pachniewski
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The future of AI - what's the "realistic" view?
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January 2023
Future posts
An overview and preview for subscirbers
Jan 8, 2023
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Pawel Pachniewski
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The intersubjectivity collapse
A catastrophic or existential risk for any civilization that radically self-modifies their minds and develops AGI
Jan 8, 2023
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Pawel Pachniewski
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The intersubjectivity collapse
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December 2022
Not artificially conscious
Why large language models like GPT-4 are not conscious
Dec 30, 2022
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Pawel Pachniewski
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Not artificially conscious
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The genie is out of the bottle
There will be no AI winter.
Dec 4, 2022
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Pawel Pachniewski
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The genie is out of the bottle
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The Phantom Cognit
A future-proof term for a cognitive unit a mind tries to access, but is absent.
Dec 3, 2022
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Pawel Pachniewski
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The Phantom Cognit
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November 2022
The subjectiverse: part 1
A term for the space of all possible experiences to be had
Nov 26, 2022
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Pawel Pachniewski
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The subjectiverse: part 1
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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…
Nov 16, 2022
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Pawel Pachniewski
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The hard problem of metaphysics
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October 2022
Why Panpsychism doesn't pan out
Panpsychism is the idea that mind is everywhere and in everything.
Oct 21, 2022
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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…
Oct 13, 2022
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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…
Oct 9, 2022
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Pawel Pachniewski
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