Mental Contractions

Consciousness Is Very Likely Not Something You Get for Free by Preserving a Pattern

Start with the empirically grounded point, not with slogans.

Apr 22 • Pawel Pachniewski

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March 2026

September 2024

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, 2024 • 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 • Pawel Pachniewski

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January 2023

Future posts

An overview and preview for subscribers

Jan 8, 2023 • 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 • Pawel Pachniewski

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December 2022

Not artificially conscious

Why large language models like GPT-4 are not conscious

Dec 30, 2022 • Pawel Pachniewski

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The genie is out of the bottle

There will be no AI winter.

Dec 4, 2022 • Pawel Pachniewski

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The Phantom Cognit

A future-proof term for a missing cognitive unit a mind tries to access.

Dec 3, 2022 • Pawel Pachniewski

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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 • 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…

Nov 16, 2022 • Pawel Pachniewski

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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 • Pawel Pachniewski

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