if we put 1% of the brainpower we’ve spent on scaling laws into the binding problem, we might stop mistaking connectome simulators for moral patients (🫡 @webmasterdave)
the fly connectome everyone is playing with is probably not conscious, but all the experiments with it are kind of horrifying to me anyway, because I don't really see any of this stopping even as these capabilities scale up and conscious systems become more plausible.
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substance 4 · opinion · rank 60 · Studying the binding problem would prevent people from mistaking connectome simulators for moral patients.
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