Mental Contractions

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 subscirbers

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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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 • 

Pawel Pachniewski

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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 • 

Pawel Pachniewski

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