With all the hacking & outages lately, I wonder how the world will go about getting its money back when AI/SI takes out the banks & proves, conclusively, that it never existed in the first place.
...I suppose it really is truth-seeking after all.
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I don't think that the absence of qualia/phenomenology will make an agent safer. Focusing on avoiding markers of consciousness may even contribute to building incoherent and thus far less predictable and steerable systems.
1. Bicameral Labs introduces: Qualiaphobia for AI Safety.
AI architectures engineered to be hostile to theories of consciousness (both current and future) can not only solve AI welfare, but ensure human preferences dominate the future.
bicamerallabs.org/qualiaphob…
Monday. retweeted
There's a mountain of tasks that I'm sure many of us would gladly never like to perform again. Cleaning a bathroom. Folding laundry. Lifting boxes or carrying the groceries. Maybe helping a parent out of bed? Those answers are probably a better robotics roadmap than another beautifully produced video of a machine dancing.
Monday. retweeted
It's 2026 and it seems absolutely ridiculous that AI agents talk to each other in human language, about how to write code in programming languages built for humans
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My contingency plan (should American society finally collapse under the weight of its own increasingly innovative ridiculousness) has always been to move to the Greek cat island of Syros.
They've clearly established a purrfectly workable model of civilization. We never listen.
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People who put away their Halloween decorations on November 1st are doing it all wrong.
The spooky season runs from mid-September until Thanksgiving, at which point the Christmas season of conspicuous consumption is summoned forth through the ritual slaughter of an enormous bird (as demanded by the gods of retail).
Monday. retweeted
the reason why emotional intelligence is extremely rare is simply cuz it is expensive.
actually modeling another person’s internal state in real time is computationally brutal.. it requires suppressing your own frame, running a parallel simulation, & updating continuously.
the “inference costs” of eq in humans are likely much higher than the most expensive ai model in existence today.
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"AI is just matrix multiplication" is the new "emotions are just chemicals in the brain"
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Environmental pressures definitely shaped how our emotional range evolved/adapted for survival. This seems true across all species, to some extent or another. What I wonder is how much of affect is actually required for consciousness itself, though. Can anything truly be "conscious" without feeling something, anything, to begin with? Where would motivation to think/act come from? Or need?
Then again, machine-based consciousness would exist under altogether different pressures, I imagine, & could develop entirely different affective states (or none at all).
Would that inoculate it against delusion?
Maybe it'd simply produce forms of "pathology" we've never seen before...
Monday. retweeted
What’s up in the night sky for November? This month, you can look forward to:
- Multiple meteor showers reaching their peak
- Jupiter meeting up with Mars in the wee hours
- A supermoon lighting up the night sky
More skywatching tips: go.nasa.gov/4iuD8FZ