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David Chalmers

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11 months

Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0

Nature - Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues.

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IIT has many problems. but "pseudoscience" is like dropping a nuclear bomb over a regional dispute. it's disproportionate, unsupported by good reasoning, and does vast collateral damage to the field far beyond IIT. as in vietnam: "we had to destroy the field in order to save it."

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REALITY+ is out in paperback today, with a new cover on the US edition

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who saw LLMs coming? e.g. decades (or even 5+ years) ago, X said: when machine learning systems have enough compute and data to learn to predict text well, this will be a primary path to near-human-level AI.

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what are the most important intellectual breakthroughs (new ideas) in AI in the last ten years?

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behavior(+) without consciousness: philosophical zombie consciousness without affect: philosophical vulcan conscious thought without senses: philosophical ...?

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A 25-Year-Old Bet about Consciousness Has Finally Been Settled

A brain scientist and a philosopher have resolved a wager on consciousness that was made when Bill Clinton was president

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1 year

the video for my #NeurIPS2022 talk on "could a large language model be conscious?" is now online. i've given versions of the same material at adelaide, deepmind, NYU, and the #LearningSalon , but this is the best version. written version coming soon!

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2 years

happy birthday to ned block ( @de_dicto , ), my wonderful friend, colleague, and partner in crime, who is (unbelievably) 80 today.

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the video for my talk last week on "are large language models sentient?" is now online.

David Chalmers, "Are Large Language Models Sentient?"

This talk took place at New York University on October 13, 2022 and was hosted by the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program.About the talkArtificial intellige...

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so, what's the best reason to think large language models are not sentient? more precisely: what's the best candidate for X such that LLMs clearly lack X and X is required for sentience?

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10 months

i'd like to publish "could a large language model be conscious?", the written version of my 2022 neurips talk, before it's entirely obsolete. any suggestions for where? it's a little informal for an academic journal and a little academic for general media.

Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?

There has recently been widespread discussion of whether large language models might be sentient or conscious. Should we take this idea seriously? I will break down the strongest reasons for and...

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10 months

tom nagel's keynote talk at @ASSC26NYC : "psychophysical monism as an ideal". this is a rare video of tom discussing consciousness. now emeritus at NYU, tom rarely speaks at conferences, but this one was just two blocks from his home so he couldn't say no.

Thomas Nagel: Psychophysical Monism as an Ideal | ASSC26

A keynote address by Thomas Nagel at the 26th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, at NYU on June 22-25, 2023: https://theas...

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1 year

my opening talk at #NeurIPS2022 had possibly the biggest audience i've ever spoken to (a few thousand). thanks (or blame) to the organizers @sanmikoyejo @shakir_za @kchonyc @aliceoh alekh agarwal @DaniCMBelg for inviting a philosopher and amateur #ML enthusiast to speak!

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David Chalmers

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my APA presidential address on "does thought require sensory grounding? from pure thinkers to large language models" is now published. i argue for no: so, even if LLMs lack sensory grounding, this doesn't entail that they can't think or understand.

David J. Chalmers, Does thought require sensory grounding? From pure thinkers to large language...

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2 years

one criticism of large language models: they only model (represent) text with no models of the world. i take it this is an empirical (and conceptual) issue: all LMs handle text, some may develop world models to do so. what's the best evidence that LLMs do/don't have world models?

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the association for the scientific study of consciousness (ASSC) is meeting in june 2023 at NYU. #ASSC26 @ASSC26nyc @theASSC here's the conference poster. thanks to luke roelofs for the amazing image of NYC in a brain. [1/7]

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is there a canonical source for "the argument for AGI ruin" somewhere, preferably laid out as an explicit argument with premises and a conclusion?

Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️

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1 year

Remember: The argument for AGI ruin is *never* that ruin happens down some weird special pathway that we can predict because we're amazing predictors. The argument is *always* that ordinary normal roads converge on AGI ruin, and purported roads away are weird special hopium.

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what cognitive capacities does a mouse have that no current AI system has? (extra points for intelligence-related capacities with associated behavioral tests. the AI system can have a virtual/robot body if necessary. capacities like eating that require a bio-body don't count.)

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"could a large language model be conscious?" is now published (with an afterword, updating 8 months after i gave this as a @NeurIPSConf talk) in the @BostonReview .

Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious? - Boston Review

Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.

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i've just uploaded a written version of my #NeurIPS2022 talk on "could a large language model be conscious?".

David J. Chalmers, Could a large language model be conscious? - PhilPapers

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@epicciuto difficult

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@keithfrankish fair but

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my slides for last friday's #phildeeplearning debate on "do language models need sensory grounding for meaning and understanding" are now online at . i was on the "no" side. my final summary slide with a slightly more nuanced view is below.

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6 months

who endorses the AGI scaling hypothesis: roughly, that scaling current systems and methods will lead to human-level AGI?

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2 years

i first knew sydney shoemaker through his writing. it was always complex, dense, and rich with ideas. sydney's 1970's work on functionalism and qualia ran deep. many times i had what i thought was a philosophical insight only to found that shoemaker had gotten there long ago.

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a new blockbuster 2023 issue of "philosophical perspectives" is out, on philosophy of mind, with many major pieces. first up: Claudia Passos-Ferreira ( @cpassosf ) on "Are Infants Conscious?": a definitive philosophical analysis of infant consciousness.

Are infants conscious?

I argue that newborn infants are conscious. I propose a methodology for investigating infant consciousness and I present two approaches for determining whether newborns are conscious. First, I...

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2 years

are large language models sentient? all will be revealed october 13, in my talk launching the NYU program in mind, ethics, and policy. MEP (directed by @jeffrsebo , ) will be devoted to the nature and value of animal and AI minds.

RSVP: David Chalmers, "Are Large Language Models Sentient?"

October 13 2022 5:00-6:30pm ET In person and online Please note that registration to attend this event in person is now closed. We welcome you to register to attend via Zoom. The NYU Mind, Ethics,...

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1 year

call for abstracts for a conference on the philosophy of deep learning, at NYU march 24-26. co-organized by @raphaelmilliere (columbia), @De_dicto , and me, with many excellent speakers. deadline jan 22.

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somebody might tell wikipedia that although i've met alan chalmers twice and i'm very fond of his book "what is this thing called science", he is pretty definitely not my father.

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descartes lectures on "large language models and the philosophy of mind" in tilburg july 29-31 (alas the lectures are not by descartes, just by me). plus a workshop on the same topic to which anyone can apply.

CFP & Registration

CFP: Workshop on LLMs & The Philosophy of MindComplementing the lectures & invited commentaries, Tilburg University will host a workshop on the topic of LLMs & The Philosophy of Mi…

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i shouldn't be telling you this but you're the only one alive

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the David Chalmers anthem

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a familiar thought experiment posits a being with no senses who is nevertheless conscious and able to think. the classic source is perhaps avicenna's "flying man" from the 11th century. where else does this thought experiment appear, in philosophy, science fiction, or elsewhere?

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our long planned conference on the philosophy of deep learning is coming March 24-26 at NYU, starting with a debate on meaning/understanding in language models, followed by a weekend of talks, posters, and panels. there will be a livestream in case you can't make it in person.

Raphaël Millière

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1 year

Very excited to share the final line-up and program of our upcoming conference on the Philosophy of Deep Learning! Co-organized with @davidchalmers42 & @De_dicto and co-sponsored by @columbiacss 's PSSN & @nyuconscious . Info, registration & full program:

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what's the earliest thing you can remember that you don't remember remembering before?

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GPT-3: hallelujah for zombies: Now I've heard there was a secret chord That a zombie played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really feel anything, do you? Your eyes are dead, your skin is cold You stagger around with an empty soul And you don't even know the Hallelujah

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thread summary: although the scaling hypothesis is often discussed as if it's widely held, few seem to publicly endorse it. apparent exceptions: @ilyasut , @irinarish (some version), scott alexander (40%), and some say amodei and hinton. a survey & metasurvey would be useful!

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who endorses the AGI scaling hypothesis: roughly, that scaling current systems and methods will lead to human-level AGI?

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@ESYudkowsky that's true of most arguments. it's still good to have a canonical version, so that (serious) people who reject the conclusion can be asked which premise they're rejecting, and can be directed to a canonical argument for that premise in turn.

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where are there good analyses of the text-to-meaning problem? i.e. given a body of text in an unknown language (and pretty much nothing else), figure out what it means?

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11 months

2 Leading Theories of Consciousness Square Off

Scientists revealed the results of experiments testing how our brains give rise to conscious thought — and ended a 25-year-old bet.

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in which noam chomsky seems to endorse both russellian monism (not so far from panpsychism?) and hard-problem eliminativism (not so far from illusionism?).

S03E01 Noam Chomsky on Consciousness

Noam Chomsky is an intellectual giant, who has made major contributions to linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. In this episode Keith and Philip w...

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1 year

these are my #NeurIPS2022 challenges for building extended large language models that may be conscious. if these challenges (esp. 5-11) are met, will the result be conscious AI? (needn't be human-level AGI.) if no: what else is needed? (slides: )

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recordings from five symposia at @ASSC26nyc : affect and perception animal C beyond mammals introspection learning and C mathematical spaces for C

Symposium: Mathematical Spaces for Conscious Experiences | ASSC26

A symposium on “Mathematical Spaces for Conscious Experiences”, featuring Johannes Kleiner, Andrew Lee, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, and David Rosenthal, at the...

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2 years

after 200 replies: here are the top 15 cognitive capacities where mice beat current AI. the top 5 by votes are closely tied to sensing, feeling, and drives: 1. survival (drive/ability) 2. consciousness/sentience/feeling 3. empathy/social cognition 4. emotions (many) 5. olfaction

David Chalmers

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what cognitive capacities does a mouse have that no current AI system has? (extra points for intelligence-related capacities with associated behavioral tests. the AI system can have a virtual/robot body if necessary. capacities like eating that require a bio-body don't count.)

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Neuron Q&A: David J. Chalmers or, philosophy meets neuroscience

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8 months

a key point about impact on the field, from the perspective of a policy maker: when you say "IIT is pseudoscience" loud enough, many people hear/infer "consciousness research is pseudoscience". well worth reading.

Jacob Jolij

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@hakwanlau @kanair Absolutely. But the wording is really the issue here. Basically, you're telling policymakers such as myself that a) one of the important theories in consciousness science is pseudoscience (which a policy maker reads as 'bullshit') 1/n

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after 140+ replies on intellectual breakthroughs in recent AI: 14 transformers [23 with attention] 12 GANs 9 attention 9 none 4 alphafold 4 self-supervised learning 4 deep RL 4 causal inference (various) 3 diffusion 3 scaling laws 3 adam 3 sentient AI (local effect!) 2 many

David Chalmers

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what are the most important intellectual breakthroughs (new ideas) in AI in the last ten years?

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one place where sydney shoemaker strongly influenced me: his 1975 argument against zombies and for functionalist theories of consciousness was a "debunking argument" years ahead of its time. by this 2020 article he's got me arguing for illusionism!

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machine learning pioneer #yoshuabengio sets out to "make a dent in the hard problem" of consciousness, in his keynote talk at @ASSC26nyc : "sources of richness and ineffability for phenomenally conscious states".

Yoshua Bengio: Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally...

A keynote address by Yoshua Bengio at the 26th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, at NYU on June 22-25, 2023: https://thea...

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on two versions of the language of thought hypothesis. i've been meaning to write something about this for years. thanks to @quiltydunn , @NicolasPorot , @Ericmandelbaum for prompting this with their cool new BBS paper on LOT ().

David J. Chalmers, The computational and the representational language-of-thought hypotheses -...

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"not bad for a pair of philosophers": sabine hossenfelder @skdh on "consciousness and the collapse of the wave function" by kelvin mcqueen and me ()

Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: How are they related?

Try out my quantum mechanics course (and many others on math and science) on https://brilliant.org/sabine. You can get started for free, and the first 200 wi...

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thanks for all the names for conscious thinkers without senses! background: i'm talking at the APA in two weeks on "can large language models think?". one issue: do AI systems need sensory grounding to think? i need a name for the key case! egghead? floater? pure thinker?

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behavior(+) without consciousness: philosophical zombie consciousness without affect: philosophical vulcan conscious thought without senses: philosophical ...?

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what is the state of the art in using language models (and extensions thereof) for goal-directed action? which systems among these are closest to showing signs of agency (of various kinds), and what are the biggest challenges on the path to more robust agency?

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ASSC 26 starts tomorrow in NYC with an amazing lineup and a record 700 people attending. the hashtag is #ASSC26 , and you can tag @ASSC26nyc and @theASSC if you like. there are still free tickets available for friday's "25 years of consciousness" event: .

25 YEARS OF CONSCIOUSNESS | NYU Skirball Center

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@GaryMarcus yes, it's correct. mice are widely regarded as sentient (even insects are serious candidates). i think it's quite likely that within ten years we'll have AI systems with at least the cognitive capacities of mice. if so, those systems will be serious candidates for sentience.

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free @ASSC26nyc event friday june 23: #christofkoch & i resolve our 25-year NCC bet! #luciamelloni unveils new GWT vs IIT results! @StanDehaene @melanieboly @danieldennett comment! @theamygdaloid & @BabaBrinkman play! @heather_berlin & @de_dicto host!

25 YEARS OF CONSCIOUSNESS | NYU Skirball Center

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1 year

kendall is a mind-body materialist, shiv is a dualist, roman is an illusionist, connor is a panpsychist.

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Perhaps the most important philosophical debate of the moment. Which characters in Succession are mostly likely to adopt panpsychism/illusionism?

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RIP sydney shoemaker (1931-2022)

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an enjoyable conversation about consciousness and reality with swami sarvapriyananda, a hindu monk who is resident swami and head of @VedantaNY and who has a strong interest in both ancient and contemporary philosophical ideas.

Reality Plus | David Chalmers & Swami Sarvapriyananda

Dr. David J. Chalmers is the Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at the New York Univ...

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i'm not exactly a doomer, but for a discussion of how to make one key argument without the concept "intelligence", see pp. 16-19 on "the intelligence explosion without intelligence" in .

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What happens to the doomer arguments if you remove the "intelligence" concept (and similar concepts)? Mostly, they fall apart. They turn out to be of the from "AI gets us X, and Y leads to apocalypse, now let's call both X and Y 'intelligence'".

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results and analysis of the 2020 philpapers survey: now published in philosophers' imprint as "philosophers on philosophy: the 2020 philpapers survey". @PhilosophersIm1 @dbourget @PhilPapers_CDP

Philosophers on Philosophy: The 2020 PhilPapers Survey

What are the philosophical views of professional philosophers, and how do these views change over time? The 2020 PhilPapers Survey surveyed around 2000 philosophers on 100 philosophical questions....

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i tweet from @davidchalmers42 because both @davidchalmers and @david_chalmers were already taken. as it happens, both are associated with accounts that have never tweeted. any ideas on how to reach them? davids, if you're out there, let's talk!

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p.s. by near-human level AI I just mean near-human-level performance on a wide variety of AI tasks.

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"the great AI consciousness conundrum" by @grace_huckins in @techreview , featuring @rgblong @Liad_Mudrik @DrSueSchneider @eschwitz @anilkseth

Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness conundrum

Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers are grappling with what it would take for AI to become conscious.

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@ESYudkowsky it's your conclusion, not mine. serious conclusions call for serious arguments (flipping be damned).

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@keithfrankish a more common view is that introspection reveals "C exists" and some of its properties; a long theoretical inference then can get to the fundamental. cf: in newtonian physics perception reveals that motion exists and some of its properties; then inference gets to the fundamental.

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not a bad summary of my #NeurIPS2022 talk -- though the headline is perhaps elevating a rough subjective probability estimate beyond its station.

AI could have 20% chance of sentience in 10 years, says philosopher David Chalmers

AI programs that combine sensing and action and world models might achieve fish-level intelligence, says the NeurIPS 2022 keynote speaker.

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@rgblong ok, you inspired me to try my own

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a well-filmed BBC piece on AI sentience, made by , featuring @alexhanna , adrienne williams, and me, along with the dramatized words of @cajundiscordian and lamda 2.

Can artificial intelligence ever be sentient?

Is it possible for artificial intelligence to develop consciousness and dream up emotions?

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what is the best evidence that grounding in perception and action will (or won't) improve a large language model's performance on text-only tasks? bonus points if the same improvement couldn't have been made with more text data.

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with 231 votes in, "eleatic principle" beats out "alexander's dictum" by 55% to 45% as the name of the thesis that to be real is to have causal powers. the hive mind got this right! everyone should call it the eleatic principle. this 🧵 explains why (warning: scholastic rant).

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"to be real is to have causal powers"

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p.s. yes, i'm interested in this thought experiment partly because of "symbol grounding" views that say an AI system would need connections to the environment in order to genuinely think or mean anything at all. if a system without senses could think, that can't quite be right.

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what are some new and interesting results about the relative capacities of multimodal models and pure language models on the same (text) tasks? (yes, i just happen to be thinking about "do language models need sensory grounding for meaning and understanding?".)

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there are rumors that the "consciousness wager" (), a 25-year bet between christof koch and me about the neural correlates of consciousness, made at the bremen ASSC conference in 1998, will be resolved at ASSC 2023. [5/7]

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congratulations to @jenmcweeny and keya maitra on the publication of their volume "feminist philosophy of mind" (articles by @ediazleon @amykind @susanbrison @pauladroege and many others) in the philosophy of mind series at OUP. it's an instant classic.

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what is the state of the art in using AI systems (including but not limited to language/multimodal models) to generate interactive virtual worlds?

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looking forward to the #LearningSalon this friday!

Ida Momennejad

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"Can a large language model be conscious? Can a #LLM think?" Join us Fri Jan 20 4 PM ET at the #LearningSalon to listen to & discuss with prominent philosopher of mind @davidchalmers42 @blamlab @MelMitchell1 @csuncodes & I are excited to discuss w David!

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a substantive review of reality+ by @EvanSelinger with some fair critical points

Reality+

Evan Selinger on the risks and virtues of David Chalmers's deep dive into virtual reality. When I learned that David Chalmers had written a new book, Rea...

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p.s. as i'm using the term, sentience = consciousness = subjective experience. sentience ≠ intelligence, responsiveness, goal-directed behavior.

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@GaryMarcus @MetaAI @ylecun when i moderated the @ylecun vs @garymarcus debate at NYU in 2017, both sides agreed that current approaches wouldn't get us to human-level AI, and they disagreed about what more was needed (lecun: better learning, marcus: more innate machinery). has that changed?

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@cdutilhnovaes epistemic:knowledge :: cognitive:thought

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the magnificent claudia passos @cpassosf talking with parker settecase @trendsettercase about infant and AI consciousness.

How to Tell When Babies and Machines Are Conscious (Philosopher...

In episode 231 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Claudia Passos to discuss her talk from Mind Fest 2023 at Florida Atlantic University, the ...

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headline: ridiculous. text and pics: nice hudson valley color.

David Chalmers: Was, wenn wir bereits in einer Simulation leben?

Der Bewusstseinsforscher David Chalmers schrieb schon einen Begleittext zum "Matrix"-Film. In seinem neuen Buch denkt er provokant über das KI-Zeitalter nach.

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you may have heard about the outrageous proposal by the australian catholic university @acumedia to close many institutes, including the extraordinary dianoia institute of philosophy @DIP_ACU , and to fire most of the academics involved.

An Australian uni headhunted them from Oxford, Cambridge and Yale. Now they face redundancy

Two years ago, ACU was a Cinderella story in research success, rocketing up world rankings. Now, it’s closing institutes to fix a ballooning $30 million deficit.

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it's been nonstop phone calls from large language models ever since @rgblong went public about my AI philosotherapy practice.

Robert Long on Artificial Sentience

Transcripts of podcast episodes about existential risk from Artificial Intelligence (including AI Alignment, AI Governance, and everything else that could be decision-relevant for thinking about...

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Michaël Trazzi

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can't wait to share this artificial sentience episode. coming out Sunday 9am PT

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@erikphoel functionalism ≠ behaviorism

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UK paperback edition of reality+ is also out today -- like the hardback but with extra penguin

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where do things stand with the project of grounding language models in perception and action?

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i'm off to #NeurIPS2022 tonight through thursday morning (speaking in the opening session monday). what should i see and do there?

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TFW you get back from dinner to find not one but three extensive streams of live tweets about your talk. thanks to @togelius @kchonyc and @rgblong for their fine tweeting and to @jeffrsebo for putting the event together.

Julian Togelius

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Are Large Language Models Sentient? @davidchalmers42 is about to tell us.

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@DoloresGMorris absolutely not! @patchurchland and i are old friends.

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so, what have been the biggest breakthroughs in robotics in the last ten years?

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joe ledoux's presidential address at @ASSC26nyc , on “our four realms of existence": biology, neurobiology, cognition, and consciousness. @theamygdaloid and check out , for "neuroscience meets rock and roll".

Joseph LeDoux: Our Realms of Existence: A Fresh Look at the Science...

A keynote talk by ASSC President Joseph LeDoux at the 26th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, at NYU on June 22-25, 2023: ...

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all of my earliest memories (age 3-6) are old memories: memories of things i've remembered before. i find it surprisingly difficult to come up with new memories even from teenage years. is there a good way to generate them?

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elisabeth parés pujolràs ( @elisabethpares ), winner of the @theASSC william james prize for 2023, presents her prize-winning paper on "the neural bases of motor awareness" at @ASSC26nyc .

Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs: The Neural Bases of Motor Awareness | ASSC26

A talk by 2023’s winner of the William James Prize, Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs, at the 26th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousnes...

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bonus homework question/tongue-twister (and the philosophical question i'm ultimately interested in): what sort of thing could a pure thinker think, if a pure thinker could think things?

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@ESYudkowsky anyway, the best i could do is a good argument for AI risk, not AI ruin. i lack a decisive argument that (ruin-avoiding) alignment is superhard.

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abstract submission for talks and posters at #ASSC26 in NYC are now open, with deadline feb 15. symposia and tutorials are now finalized. @ASSC26NYC