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Regardless of whether LLMs are conscious or not, they have no known mechanism for experiencing pain and suffering, and there's no reason to believe they have one (such as a limbic system). So why worry about it?

maybe the bacteria are conscious. How sure are we that they're not?

The only strong argument I have against it is the anthropic principle -- there are billions of times more bacteria than humans, so it's overwhelmingly unlikely that I'd be a human rather than a bacteria.

Not a very good argument of course.

why is that obviously false? To a functionalist, a pen and paper and a set of rules is sufficient for consciousness.

TL;DR, the arguments are:

- If you asked an LLM to imitate somebody, it's not creating a digital consciousness of that person, so if you ask an LLM to pretend to be a helpful chatbot, that persona is also not conscious. - they can't be conscious because they generate one token at a time, - nobody claims that non-text transformers, like AlphaFold, are conscious; so therefore LLMs are also not conscious. - you can't have desires or emotions if you don't have (virtual or physical) sensory organs, and those are necessary for consciousness and morals. - because training LLMs doesn't resemble evolution as it happened on earth, it's very unlikely that they're conscious

These are some bold assertions, I don't really see any reason to believe them in particular though.

Germany's official name is Bundesrepublik Deutschland

how would you build memory into the weights? and why is RAG not enough? Our hippocampus is at a bit of a distance from our frontal cortex.

is remote attestation possible in a web browser already?

it's just annoying to have to do that.

It's good legislation. I would love to see this extended to "Stop Killing Software" in general, with the same provisions.

Many people's code underpins the internet. Some of them are women, yes. I wonder if you've ever heard of Grace Hopper.

the bill explicitly doesn't apply to games that are free or are on a subscription system. (I assume free-to-play with microtransactions would be covered by this bill though, unless those microtransactions are subscription-based or time-limited.)

I am indeed worried that this will push games to be subscription-based, so I would advocate making the bill apply even to subscription-based games. Though that would require some thought, of course, as it's not obvious how it should apply to such a game.

Yeah! And if climate change is so inevitable, why do the people who want to prevent it from happening seem hell-bent on convincing people that climate change is real?

Closely related is Laplace's Rule of Succession[1], which basically says that (in lieu of other information), the odds of something happening next time go down the more times in a row that it doesn't happen (and vice versa).

So for example, the longer a time bomb ticks, the less likely it is to go off any time soon. (Assuming the timer isn't visible.) :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession

Mind you, he is only personally invested insofar as he's staked his reputation on it. Throughout his writing, he expresses the same point over and over again: desperately wants AI to slow down, advocates for politics that would slow it down, and most likely nothing would bring him greater peace than to see a sigmoid curve appear.

AI has not been trained on Lojban. And furthermore, this article is almost certainly primarily intended to be read by humans directly.

I understand you're being facetious, but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about programming languages in comparison.

matrix.org alive and well

I've never understood the illiberal desire to treat boys and girls so differently. I'm glad I live in a country where sexism is illegal at a fundamental level -- this kind of law would be quickly struck down.

I'm very interested to see how it was cracked, and how the anticheat works.

this is an incomplete picture though. Would Google Maps be considered a control or setting?

A number of publishers have retroactively added Denuvo to their older games, inexplicably.

Even if you're in favour of surveillance, why does the surveillance also need to be secret?

The article ends with "we were all a little worried." Is this where it's supposed to end? Feels incomplete. I'm hooked anyway.

Was a little disappointed that this didn't result in the agent playing Doom itself over MCP.

Still this is very cool! (And if that had been what you'd implemented, my disappointment would have been that it wasn't the reverse. :P Can it do both?)

Google already killed their main music service in 2020. Why should I trust them with another?

so do you just use su?

Although he starts with "Lest anyone accuse me of bargaining in bad faith here," I feel that this is a bad faith argument. It seems like he's saying, "we don't need to be worried about malevolent superintelligence, since AI is already doing bad things, and corporations were doing bad things even before AI." But one can believe corporations are bad, current AI is bad, and malevolent superintelligence is a serious concern.

The article later clarifies that the actual crime was to post extensive screenshots and descriptions of movies on his blogs, to such detail that it was essentially like reading a picture-book adaptation of the movie. This is really not the same as "posting spoilers."

It'd be great if this moves developers to consider optimizing for lower-end connections.

> Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Science and ICT Bae Kyunghoon said the scheme is needed because citizens can’t do without access to online services

So indeed it actually is intended to make online services necessary.

He was not blogging under his real name. Scott Alexander is not his real name.