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AI Mimics and AI Children
There’s no shame in losing a contest for a long-form popular essay on AI consciousness to the eminent neuroscientist Anil Seth. Berggruen has published…
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Humble Superintelligence
I’m enjoying -- well, maybe enjoying isn’t the right word -- Yudkowsky and Soares’ If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies. I agree with them that if we build…
Jan 9
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Writings of 2025
Each New Year’s Day, I post a retrospect of the past year’s writings.
Jan 1
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"Severance", "The Substance", and Our Increasingly Splintered Selves
reprint of an op-ed from January
Dec 29, 2025
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How Much Should We Give a Joymachine?
a holiday post on gifts to your utility monster neighbors
Dec 24, 2025
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Debatable AI Persons: No Rights, Full Rights, Animal-Like Rights, Credence-Weighted Rights, or Patchy Rights?
I advise that we don’t create AI entities who are debatably persons. If an AI system might -- but only might -- be genuinely conscious and deserving of…
Dec 19, 2025
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Can We Introspectively Test the Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness?
Do you experience a welter of detail in many sensory modalities at once? If so, GWT must be false. Sadly, we are incompetent at this introspective task.
Dec 12, 2025
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Language Models Don't Accurately Describe How They Would Answer If Questions Were Posed in a Different Order (Favorite Animal Edition)
How well do language models like ChatGPT know their own inclinations and preferences?
Dec 5, 2025
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