Yes, it's not immediately obvious, and he says little about the "Abstraction Fallacy" ref. It seems to be part of a series of exploratory papers. But there is an overlap in the underlying questions, e.g. Pattee and the epistemic cut, i.e. how the duality of mind/matter, symbol/matter, etc, arises.
Golly, that's tough! I know people who've lost work (book chapter, complex music edits, and my own failing to press Save of course). Did the drive here represent internal refs, memories, assuming the original filming was of and in the external world?
... but while I'm largely sceptical of digital computer phenomenal consciousness, there are enough uncertainties to make me sceptical of certainties. Pattee I found helpful, but I think we're still trying to (re)discover how useful or relevant various arguments are to questions of consciousness.
Thanks, I've been looking for decent responses - have you seen this (brief) ref to it? bsky.app/profile/pabl... (Its use of capitalised Principles etc is also slightly annoying, but that paper and his thesis are both engagingly written.) I had some chat on LinkedIn, including with Alex...
Really? I once went round the Eperlecques site in France. War is such a perverse way to have to experience life.
So much of what I know is from social media interactions. There just isn’t time to write and publish all useful thoughts, and often understanding might change just a few years after publication anyway… So the only way to keep up is to speak to each other more! :)
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Just to be clear, the editor of this book, Bowden, is an unreliable narrator as Ratio Club members Turing and Uttley might well not agree with him - see my stray comment bsky.app/profile/pabl..., main thread for source. His job was to sell his company's computers, not others' difficult ideas.
Do you mean that, once observed, Moore's Law could be affected by Goodhart's Law, creating the evidence for itself in the same way as Turing's paper?
I find his move to morphogenesis interesting, although I wouldn't be surprised if he was approaching what to him may have been related problems from a different angle.
Was surprised to find Harnad really enjoys chatting through his ideas with LLMs (with provisos): www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...
Sometimes dyed red? I had some odd dreams last night. I woke myself up swearing - I think!
Thanks for all the shares! A smidge more in these LinkedIn comments but I abandoned writing it up into a short post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
What do we see when we dream in colour?
Indomitable was good!
I found this a really useful run-through philarchive.org/rec/GONCMT by @turingfutures.bsky.social Turing's famous paper isn't a static object, it's a rhetorical move at the time - not one I entirely agree with, but I wish he'd have lived longer. He was such an interesting thinker.
I think that probably happens about most ideas. There are cycles, or spirals, of thought playing off each other.
A bit more here - I'd lazily never followed up Turing's refs: bsky.app/profile/pabl...
Bit of a random thread from me (as usual - this is where it ends, so scroll backwards) but the history is really interesting: bsky.app/profile/pabl...
I found this paper unevenly argued. A weather model with sensors is passive; a machine with sensors, actuators and planning in relation to a live simulation can update and be updated by the world. Doesn't automatically grant it "qualia", but it's more "conscious" of what it does in its surroundings.
Seems training flatworms is a skill that cannot be learned?
We discovered that human annotation of video data is not very reliable across raters. This almost gave me a heart attack: was the entire literature based entirely on unreliable annotation?? We developed a computer vision pipeline to get around this, but still no evidence for learning.
Oh, lovely! Ubiquity of online scams and surveillance. But there's more tech dystopiary out there, isn't there?
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
Surveillance of wild birds is also necessary - active, passive, or sentinel
Probably not in a good way.
Thanks, @stephenkb.bsky.social. I'm sure there's still room for him to make the situation worse. Worse for them, worse for us. Will he be remembered for taking a solid majority and dissolving it into a blob? (That would be a bit unfair but he's making rescuing his lumpy-looking legacy harder work.)
First page of the article "Measuring issue salience for political parties using LLMs" by Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver, published online first in West European Politics. Shows the title, authors, and abstract.
Box plots showing the distribution of 'budgeted' issue salience scores across six policy dimensions (economic, social, environment, EU, decentralization, immigration), comparing expert surveys, Manifesto Project codings, and LLM-based estimates.
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LLMs estimate party positions well. How about issue salience?
@kenbenoit.bsky.social and Michael Laver show its harder: salience is inherently relative and more implicit. LLM's salience estimates are usable but track experts less closely than positions.
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Is there much work on assessing the likelihood of AI that has in some way acquired consciousness ending up with a disordered variety, as seems plausible to me? The SEP deals with disorders in a splintered way, e.g. plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons... @metzinger.bsky.social or @eschwitz.bsky.social..?
No need to apologise, I know you're very busy - more need from me for the snarky tone in my post! But it's my observation of your writing behaviour. I think consciousness discourse is a particularly knotty tangle, but anaesthesiology seems a reasonably scientific practice, aware of known unknowns.