- The phantom cognit: a term for missing cognitive system (brain) dependencies leaving a phantom trace or references that causes issues, generalized from phantom limb. https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/the-phantom-cognit 3 comments philosophy
- The intersubjectivity collapse: a collapse of the network of unspoken rules that hold civilization together based on the subjectivity of minds that have created it, due to introduction of vastly new minds that lead to unpredictability of agents amongst each other. https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/the-intersubjectivity-collapse 92 comments philosophy
- Why large language models like ChatGPT are very unlikely to be conscious. Our best evidence shows consciousness is computed enlisting substrate, not abstracting it away like in the digital computation paradigm. So we can use many substrates, but we need to design explicitly for consciousness. https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/not-artificially-conscious 4 comments futurology
- Not artificially conscious - why large language models like ChatGPT are not conscious https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/not-artificially-conscious 333 comments philosophy
- The subjectiverse: part 1 https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/the-subjectiverse-part-1 3 comments futurology
- In this post I introduce the notion of the phantom cognit, a future-proof term for a cognitive unit a mind tries to access, but is absent. https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/the-phantom-cognit 5 comments futurology
- There will be no AI winter. Unless you mean civilizational disarray and societal turbulence due to seismic shifts and transfers of skills between AI and humans with economy-crippling asymmetries. Then, yes - AI winter is coming. It is not AGI yet, but it is pseudo-AGI. And 2023 will be rife with it. https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/openais-chatgpt 44 comments artificial
- The hard problem of metaphysics: figuring out if other phenomena exist in our universe that like consciousness require we bear a specific metaphysical relation to them - i.e. you can't know of consciousness without being conscious. https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/the-hard-problem-of-metaphysics 149 comments philosophy