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I can no longer rule out modern AI systems having some form of subjective experience.
It's time we took AI consciousness seriously:
Samuel Hammond 🦉
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Samuel Hammond 🦉
@hamandcheese
Chief economist + AI Policy Director, @joinFAI. Nonresident fellow @NiskanenCenter. Pluralist. 'The world is second best, at best.' | [email protected]
- will be awkward if we solve aging but discover there's a secret 2nd puberty that only hits at 140, lost to the time of noah and abraham
- I did 4 cups of ayahuasca once and tunneled through my consciousness in a state of euphoria having one epiphany after another. At some point, the sense of epiphany continued without any meaningful referent, as if I was leaning on the epiphany key in my brain. That then triggeredThis is probably one of the top 5 best tweets ever posted.
- This is unironically an awesome idea. astralcodexten.com/i/136287965/cl…
- If the Right really wants to go after Disney, they should skip the culture war memes and drastically shorten copyright terms.
- This matches the videos I've seen and certainly helps explain the government's odd response.
- The globalization of American politics is very strange.
- I was at an AI thing in SF this weekend when a young woman walked up. The first thing she said, almost verbatim: "I'm a Chinese national but it's not like I'm a spy or anything" *nervous laughter.* I asked her if she thought Xi was an AI doomer and she suddenly excused herself.The Actual, Real, Not-Messing-Around Chinese spies in Silicon Valley problem needs to be addressed. This has to be a priority of the next administration.
- So if I have this right, Cormac McCarthy gave refuge to a victim of abuse, began a loving relationship, delayed having sex until she reached the Texas age of consent, offered marriage but when declined used his MacArthur money to pay for her return home, staying in touch until
- I caught a spectator getting taken out by a huge wave on a Key West livestream and gif'd it #hurricaneirma2017 #HurricaineIrma
GIF - Luxury wines are a trillion dollar a year industry, yet wine tasters can't distinguish between low and high quality wines in blind tastings, will rank wines higher based on the price or label, and have even been fooled with a bit of food coloring into thinking white wine is red.
- Admitting when you were wrong is good
Just a completely unserious person. - The idea that your palate becomes more refined with age is backwards. Your palate dulls with age, requiring more intense flavors to compensate. Children have the most refined palate, tasting flavors that adults are blind to. "Refined" adults enjoy things like olives, fine wine,
