Consciousness Is Very Likely Not Something You Get for Free by Preserving a Pattern
Start with the empirically grounded point, not with slogans.
Mental Contractions
of an alien from the future on enhancing, extending, and exploring existence through artificial intelligence, biotechnology and more.
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Future technology and products (part 1): exobiological barriers and filters
Our evolved filters, linguistic processing, skin, taste, smell, even the blood-brain barrier, will not be enough to keep bad, hostile, deceptive, or unknown things from affecting us.
Five new basic future rights of generally intelligent sentient beings
Because I have rather particular ideas with respect to governance, rights, and the overall structure of our civilization in the next decades, I won’t go into details about how these rights would work exactly.
The future of AI - what's the "realistic" view?
There are some people out there who pretend to present "realistic" views on AI where improvement is always going to be very gradual.
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The intersubjectivity collapse
A catastrophic or existential risk for any civilization that radically self-modifies their minds and develops AGI
Not artificially conscious
Why large language models like GPT-4 are not conscious
The genie is out of the bottle
There will be no AI winter.
The Phantom Cognit
A future-proof term for a missing cognitive unit a mind tries to access.
The subjectiverse: part 1
A term for the space of all possible experiences to be had