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The future of AI - what's the "realistic" view?
Where I argue to err on the side of caution - which in my book means rapid acceleration
Pawel Pachniewski
Feb 13
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January 2023
Future posts
An overview and preview for subscirbers
Pawel Pachniewski
Jan 8
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The intersubjectivity collapse
A catastrophic or existential risk for any civilization that radically self-modifies their minds and develops AGI
Pawel Pachniewski
Jan 8
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December 2022
Not artificially conscious
Why large language models like ChatGPT are not conscious
Pawel Pachniewski
Dec 30, 2022
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OpenAI's ChatGPT
The genie is out of the bottle
Pawel Pachniewski
Dec 4, 2022
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The Phantom Cognit
A future-proof term for a cognitive unit a mind tries to access, but is absent.
Pawel Pachniewski
Dec 3, 2022
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November 2022
The subjectiverse: part 1
A term for the space of all possible experiences to be had
Pawel Pachniewski
Nov 26, 2022
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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…
Pawel Pachniewski
Nov 16, 2022
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October 2022
Why Panpsychism doesn't pan out
Panpsychism is the idea that mind is everywhere and in everything. It is the view that mind or mindlike aspects are simply features of all reality or…
Pawel Pachniewski
Oct 21, 2022
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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…
Pawel Pachniewski
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…
Pawel Pachniewski
Oct 9, 2022
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September 2022
Welcome to Mental Contractions
Mental Contractions is my blog on enhancing, extending, and exploring existence. The coming decades constitute a particularly turbulent transition…
Pawel Pachniewski
Sep 21, 2022
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