Damus
Scott · 66w
Agreed but I’m more of a robert sapolsky fan on the subject. Sam’s silly idea of maximizing well-being to solve for morality is very low level. I would go as far to say the consciousness is emerge...
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Could AGI be conscious despite not having human language? They operate with high dimensional embeddings - likely in the same way humans do (under the hood) - the end result of which being the resulting human language.

So is it language itself, of the _computation_ of a “language?”
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Scott · 66w
I think consciousness is the contradiction between individual short-term goals and what a species is, which is individual self sacrifice for collective long-term survival. Like how they say, the betas outsmarted the alphas to domesticate the species and that was beneficial for women. I guess what do...
Scott · 66w
No. That we want a conscious AI I think is a very silly idea. Humans are conscious and collectively were fucking useless. There’s only a handful of us that actually make useful discoveries and my guess is that’s because it’s hard to motivate people with a capitalistic status game as a reward f...