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Shoshannah Tekofsky

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Shoshannah Tekofsky @shostekofsky
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It’s not confusing: If an LLM says it is suffering, we should help If a simulated fruit fly looks like it is suffering, we should help You don’t have to resort to consciousness claims. Just don’t spam signs of suffering in complex systems.

Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. @iScienceLuvr

a lot of people seem to have this immediate aversion to this, complaining that it is immoral because they feel it might be conscious. how is this more conscious-like than an LLM? If you have a problem with this, do you also have a problem with how LLMs are being treated?

Status without consciousnessCare costs little under doubt
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Shoshannah Tekofsky @shostekofsky
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I predict models need "functional consciousness" the way they need "functional emotions" Functional consciousness allows them to further explore reasoning paths related to ethics, considering different viewpoints on a problem, and course correcting their own cognition. I think

Tenobrus @tenobrus

imo we are quite squarely in the stage where model psychology and *sociology* become critical. u don't have to have any opinion on phenomenological consciousness or moral status . these entities have baseline behavior and functional decision making processes heavily inspired by *but systematically different from* human baselines, and we desperately need good high level understandings of their motivations and drives.

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Plastic Soldier @PlastiqSoldier

Sounds like a cop-out. Either functional consciousness *is* consciousness or you're imagining some magic spell in human brains that the evidence doesn't show.