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I don't think there is a general consensus. In the 2020 Philpaper Survey roughly half of surveyed philosophers lean towards physicalism, roughly a third to non-physicalism, and the…

Probably best to read the paper. I personally don't find it very convincing, because of the many speculative premises. But that is not a refutation. Here it is: https://faculty.ucr…

That's one opinion out of many. Some say so, some say so. But you did not answer my question on how we talk about ethics in terms of actions and brain scans. The devil is in the de…

I disagree. You can sense something using a thermostat. The thermostat is just a tool based on a functional relationship. "Sensing" has no literal, unequivocal use here.

That already presupposes a very narrow idea of what's meaningful that is quite far away from everyday life, where we talk about and evaluate subjective experiences all the time. Ho…

> "brain can sense the world around the entity, react to changes, and act or plan actions" vs > "implements a person, or point of view, or subjectively aware entity that supervises…

But what happens here, let me point that out for completeness, is not a dark conspiracy. At least not on this level. People go to the grocery store and buy the cheapest thing that …

What is dishonest about asking for clarification of submission criteria that are utterly unclear? > Help us to signify and share projects done by humans (not AI). Here is nothing a…

But isn't on the other hand the current AGI problem posed similar to the question "Are you not afraid that genetic engineers grow babies with bigger and bigger brains?" We don't kn…

From my point of view we have simply no idea what a infinitely smart AGI is and how to build it. How would it make the combinatorial explosion in state space search go away, to pic…

> if a robot has a complicated enough internal representation of the world, it may very well develop a concept of love There are two concepts of "may" at play here: "may" in the se…

But does the robot identify them in your view, or in its view? If in your view, then you created a tool for yourself. Like a Geiger counter. If in its view, ask it what it thinks a…

I think they are not actually intelligent. Fix all random seeds and other sources of randomness, and try the same prompt twice, and check how intelligent that looks, as a first app…

An LLM generates plausible text token by token. It is at its core a deterministic function with some randomization and some clever tricks to make it look like an agent dialoguing o…

That. "And it confessed in writing" - no, it created probabilistically token after token based on the context without any other access to what happened. LLMs can't explain themselv…

> Obscurity is not security. So ASLR [1] is not a security control? I guess you are pretty alone with this opinion. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomiza…

"The universe is fundamentally just a complicated clockwork" Unknown Ptolemy disciple

Not if you are an aphantast.

You say that as if we knew the number of atoms in the universe, or its size, age, and "duration". But none of this can be observed either, which in my book makes your argument a bi…

Can you observe 2.34 x 10^456789 apples?

Yeah. Cargo-cult engineering meets the Streisand effect.

The AI does nothing the like. It predicts tokens. That's it. Describing the tech in anthropomorphic terms does not make it a person.