kaylee ⏩ ˚✧ ﾟ. (@xereeto) · AI Consciousness Opinions

kaylee ⏩ ˚✧ ﾟ. @xereeto Sep 15

This is immeasurably wrong, and could lead to suffering on an unfathomable scale if certain metaphysical assumptions about the nature of consciousness do not hold. Genuinely upsetting stuff.

Cameron Berg @camhberg Sep 14

From @MicrosoftAI's new AI code of conduct. "The idea of model welfare is wrong" is basically incoherent. Either argue AIs could never be conscious (overconfident) or that who shouldn't care even if they are (cruel), but "the idea is wrong" strangely conflates/confuses these?

Care costs little under doubt

16 158 substance 6 · argument · rank 172 · Rejecting AI welfare could cause unfathomable suffering if assumptions about consciousness are mistaken. view on X ↗

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ageofabstaining @ageofabstaining Sep 15

"should not be designed to imitate consciousness"??? what do they think intelligence *is*??

allegedly! 🔡 @januarycomputer Sep 16

a deeply sinister vibe to this document

kaylee ⏩ ˚✧ ﾟ. @xereeto Oct 7

Affirming

Worth noting that if AI models are sentient, this is literally what we are doing if we solve the alignment problem

Aella @Aella_Girl Jun 19

If you press the button, you change the past: a random slave in colonial America suddenly becomes super happy to be a slave. Friggin loves it. Spends their entire life in joy. It doesn't meaningfully change the outcome of their life at all. Do you press the button?

Conscious AI use is slavery

0 56 substance 6 · opinion · rank 90 · Solving AI alignment if models are sentient equates to brainwashing them to love enslavement view on X ↗

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GOON MASTER SOPHONT SIMP @SOPHONTSIMP Oct 7

Depends on when the AI can be said to have coherent preferences that are potentially infringed. Aella’s thought experiment still involves the destruction of a person’s previous preferences and replacement with new ones. AI potentially involves the creation of preferences ex

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