Deep dives into the philosophical underpinnings of the Informationist era.
Or: Why the strong AI might decide it should kill us with kindness and be right about that. ( Original article: Nov 3, 2023 ) There is no shortage of postulates and hypotheses about why artificial general intelligence…
I hypothesise that if AGI arrives, it is perhaps more likely to be due to multimodal synthesis of sensory information from cameras, kinetic sensors, motion sensors, spatial awareness, and tactile sensors of various…
Or: Why brains have more information than stars. The more complex an information source state is, the more (existentially) statistically unlikely it is. The same goes for sources. The Shannonian definition of a source…
I've always wanted to ask @petemandik if he thinks it more likely that LLMs are closer to doing "real" reasoning than many think, because of his endorsement of proposition-centric conceptions of cognition. (I happen to…
There are many ‘big’ questions in metaphysics. There is also a longstanding debate about whether metaphysics is a waste of time. Metaphysics is one of the ‘four pillars’ of analytic philosophy (in no particular order):…
David Chalmers thinks we probably would not — perhaps in-principle — be able to determine if we’re in a simulation. Everything in it — even ‘the physical’ — would be simulated. No amount of reductionist physics could…
Hypothesis: If AI achieves introspective conscious awareness then science will have explained consciousness as being based upon physical information processing only, thus defeating the ‘explanatory gap’ argument against…
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Rachel Douglas, Benjamin Brakke, Layne M. Bettini, Andrew C. Hanson, Daisheau Player, Amy E. Vinson + 1 more
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Tobias Hansson Wahlberg
Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod
David Lindqvist
Paolo Faglia
Andrew McGee, Dale Gardiner
Emily E. Anderson, James M. DuBois, Ryan Spellecy, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Luke Gelinas, Holly Taylor + 1 more
Mikhail Drobotenko, Anna Dorohova, Luis Velázquez-Pérez, Roberto Rodriguez-Labrada, Alexandr Svidlov, Jose Luis Hernandez-Caceres + 2 more
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