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"three reasons why AI isn't conscious." really?
"consciousness is not intelligence": not a reason why AI isn't conscious, just rebuts a bad argument for AI consciousness (AI: intelligent therefore conscious).
"consciousness is substrate-dependent"/"noncomputational": would be a reason if true, but truth needs to be established.
more accurate title: "three reasons why AI might not be conscious".
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LLMs can mimic thought and feeling with uncanny skill, but intelligence alone is not enough for subjective experience
go.nature.com/3VSXWQ4
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Effective November 12th, 2026, abusive behavior towards Claude will be a violation of Anthropic's Usage Policy.
Exclusive: Anthropic is updating its usage policy for the first time in over a year. The new rules prohibit sustained "abusive or cruel behavior" towards Claude & add new restrictions about propaganda campaigns, surveillance & weapon development. theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…
I disagree completely, and your description of model welfare is completely wrong, Steven.
Brilliant and urgent essay by Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman on the depravity of ‘model welfare’ - training AI to reason and act as if it were an entity with sentience (and hence with interests and rights that compete with our own). It's alarmingly implied by Anthropic's "Constitution," Suleyman suggests, and should stop. mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warnin…
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I have all sorts of issues with the way that the AI labs frame their perceived prisoner's dilemma w/r/t super-powerful recursively self-improving AI. (For example, I think "just don't build the thing you don't want to build" is an extremely underrated position here!)
But I'm gobsmacked by the confidence of critics who claim that people worried about long-tail risk outcomes in AI are insincere, or that their fears are self-evidently bogus.
Guess what the weird rationalists and EA folks who knew a lot about bio-risk were worried about in the 2010s? A pandemic. Anybody know what happened next? It's been a cosmic blink of an eye since COVID ended, and people are going around claiming certainty about the hysterically unlikely nature of long-tail risks. I'm not asking anybody to buy the entire argument about AI existential risk. I'm asking you to hear them out just long enough to understand it.
This is now resolved I guess manifold.markets/AlanTuring/…
We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.
The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
Interesting
Almost all the predictions from the 2025 prediction blog "AI 2027" have come true.
19 out of 24 predictions have materialized, and we are well on track for the majority of them to prove accurate.
They predicted for this and next Frage:
By late 2026, increasingly capable and affordable AI agents begin replacing junior software engineers and reshaping the economy.
In 2027, superhuman coding agents automate AI research itself, triggering an intelligence explosion that could produce artificial superintelligence- and a severe alignment crisis - by year’s end.
Sounds to me we are very much aligned with that timeline. Crazy.
Here is a demo (5 minutes) of Artifacts, have a look if you're interested in AI tools for making web apps, or just curious what I'm up to these days. Link in next post.
Examples of what you can build in a few minutes: langsamt.artifactsproject.co…
provisionalnotes.blog
minimalistweather.artifactsp…
I have a new blog post in collaboration with Sonnet 5, relating to the Is-Ought distinction and moral realism: provisional-773024.artifacts…
