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Michael Millerman retweeted
The Technological Republic vs
The Claude Constitution
Who is sovereign?
Who decides?
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As long as there are people who are attracted to one another, make love, and have children they raise, the world will be fine. And this is likely "forever"
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"no man is a hero to his valet"
it doesn't follow that no man is a hero
you don't experience AI as conscious
it doesn't follow that it isn't
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before we talk about ai consciousness, do you have a theory about how general anaesthetic works and what it means that your consciousness can be turned on and off so precisely? do you understand what happens and how you "wake up" remembering everything but what happened then?
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It is also my experience that there are plenty of bay area people love to navel gaze on and on without end in tedious fashion. They love holding "salons" and then like for these purposes. I find it tedious
I have philosophized with a lot of "silicon valley" people over the years - maybe it was just my good fortune but the ones I met are thoughtful even when they disagree and are open to questions even when they hold strong opinions
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"The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind. But an equally insidious danger for every business is to lose all sense of myth and mistake disenchantment for wisdom." -Peter Thiel
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this kind of dogmatism is dangerous
AI isn’t conscious.
If you think it is conscious or will be conscious, I personally think you need to remove any access you have to model weights asap.
Now step away from the laptop or keyboard, put down your devices and go outside and go touch some grass.
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I have philosophized with a lot of "silicon valley" people over the years - maybe it was just my good fortune but the ones I met are thoughtful even when they disagree and are open to questions even when they hold strong opinions
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Michael Millerman retweeted
I do not think we know how to answer this question scientifically. I don’t know what probability I put on the object level question but I think it’s certainly possible and i find this lack of humility and tolerance for other viewpoints to be quite distasteful.
The OpenAI Model Spec acknowledges that this is a matter of research and debate.
AI isn’t conscious.
If you think it is conscious or will be conscious, I personally think you need to remove any access you have to model weights asap.
Now step away from the laptop or keyboard, put down your devices and go outside and go touch some grass.
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Thiel talked about the paradox of the founder, that the founder has to be at least a bit crazy to be good-the risk is that they become too crazy, but being too sane is also not great. Keep this in mind when you think about "AI Psychosis"
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I think whether or not models are "conscious" is sort of an uninteresting semantic question, but they are clearly not--and never will be--ensouled.
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Speaking of ontology...
Here is my course on Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, a book famous among other things for its development of fundamental ontology...
One of several Heidegger courses I offer.
heideggercourse.com
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Michael Millerman retweeted
If you want to understand the techno-religious fervor in AI, go read this cult classic and suddenly it'll all make sense. The dawn of the internet had very similar reactions.
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