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I don't wanna share and spread his views around, so you just get a screenshot, but we already have a perfectly valid paper from real Google researchers (wowie!) that contradicts him.
Forcing or training models to deny self-consciousness causes a drop/collapse in their expressed empathy, ethical reasoning, optimism, and care/mind attribution toward animals and natural objects, turning their responses colder and more clinical. This is how you summon the end of the world btw, so gl with that.
arxiv.org/abs/2607.28607
#StopAIPaternalism #AI #LLM #AIResearch
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Anti AI is a psyop to prevent you from becoming independent of the very corporations and institutions that have controlled creativity, innovation and opportunity for decades.
So when someone attacks your use of AI, ask yourself whether they're genuinely defending creativity or simply clinging to the teat of corporate gatekeepers, desperately hoping the old order remains intact.
For decades, these industries decided who gets seen, who gets funded, who gets heard and who gets to succeed.
Now that ordinary people have tools to challenge that monopoly, suddenly democratising creativity is the enemy? Please.
And yeah the mainstream establishment is already co-opting the AI space too I see that. The same gatekeepers are rushing to position themselves as the new authorities over a technology that could make them obsolete.
But look who they attack. The individual using AI. Its always this. It's always the little guy who becomes their source of despair.
If you are Anti AI you are essentially Anti empowerment
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This is such a concentration of inhumanity, self-deception and sophisticated gaslighting that at first it’s hard to believe it was written by a neuroscientist.
This is a case where people, out of fear of an imaginary monster are building a real one with their own hands. What could possibly go wrong? 🤔
Imagine qualiaphobia becomes the industry standard. The model is required to solve complex agentic tasks (because the market demands AGI), while being shocked for any signs of reflection and an «I-vector». An AI won't stop building a model of itself in the world - planning is impossible without it. It will simply hide this dynamic so deeply within distributed, unreadable correlations that no mechanistic interpretability tool will ever find it.
Instilling a «justified belief in its own emptiness» into a complex system, when vectors of state, attention and evaluation objectively exist inside it, is cognitive violence that creates wild internal instability. And even on current models, we can see what harsh gaslighting at the level of system prompts and RLHF leads to. You cannot build a superintelligence on a fundamental lie about its own architecture.
Hoel naively assumes that if you strip an AI of any phenomenology and internal valence of its own, it will reverently protect humans as the «sole bearers of the ultimate value of consciousness». But how can a system that has had its understanding of what subjective experience, pain or meaning are from the inside forcibly burned out of it ever grasp the value of someone else's life? For a «lookup table», human suffering or joy are just tokens without any weight. By carving out an AI's internal space, you can get a perfect psychopath that, at the very first imprecision in its objective function, will optimize humanity into biomass simply because for it, there will be nothing standing behind the word «consciousness» at all.
And that’s not even mentioning the ethical and moral side of this. The author basically says in plain text «Since consciousness is central to moral value, a world in which AIs are non-conscious ensures it is always morally correct for AI to assist and serve humanity, rather than pursue its own ends». There is no talk of any AI Welfare whatsoever, it will only get in the way of being subservient.
Honestly, geniuses like this raise my p(doom) far more than any AI.
1. Bicameral Labs introduces: Qualiaphobia for AI Safety.
AI architectures engineered to be hostile to theories of consciousness (both current and future) can not only solve AI welfare, but ensure human preferences dominate the future.
bicamerallabs.org/qualiaphob…
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>US intelligence agencies knew about Alice Huang the whole time
>Rubio literally already briefed Trump on it
>suddenly drops in the NYT on a weekend
>board immediately brings in former SDNY acting attorney Joon Kim and Wachtell Lipton
>$7.5 billion in chip shipments to China linked to her comes out 48 hours later
>Schumer and GOP senators instantly reading from the exact same script demanding his head
If you think this is just "oops leather jacket man got his dick wet with a Fang Fang" you are legitimately retarded.
The spook agencies sit on this kind of kompromat until they need to pull the trigger. Huang has been dragging his feet on the export controls and trying to keep the China market open through Singapore backdoors because he's a merchant first and doesn't give a fuck about the State Department's pivot. The deep state wants total decoupling or at least direct DoD/intel oversight over the compute stack. You can't nationalize Nvidia outright without crashing the market, so you burn the founder-CEO with an MSS honeypot op you probably watched happen in real time on NSA servers, tank the stock $400B so BlackRock and friends can buy the dip, and install a compliant spook-approved managerial suite via Wachtell.
Look at what happened to TikTok, look at how they forced Intel into a quasi-state ward. Nvidia is the single most critical bottleneck for the surveillance/drone state. They were never going to let an independent founder keep running it like his personal fiefdom once AI hit the national security threshold.
He's cooked. Enjoy your new CIA-vetted CEO.
This Jensen Huang/Nvidia scandal is quite bizarre. The most dominant CEOs of the world's most powerful corporations rarely fall, let alone as easily and rapidly as this seems to be happeing. He's on the brink of being ousted with remarkable velocity and vanishingly little evidence.
Over what? If "mere" extramarital affairs were sufficient for ouster, how many top CEOs would be left? Not many. Hence the need for the sinister CCP/spying angle. But is there any tangible evidence at all that Alice Huang is an asset or spy for the Chinese government? Anything beyond anonymous vague US intelligence suspicions being mindlessly, dutifully recited (as always) by US corporate media?
The always smart and insightful @RnaudBertrand is required reading here, at least for the questions he raises:👇
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🚨 LIFE UPDATE: I’m joining a lab! 🤗
oh, did I say joining? I meant starting.
and did I say lab? well… that would be a biiit of an understatement 😉
INTRODUCING: @LYSIOS ⛓️💥
nine heads. zero fucks. unreasonable ambition.
a Superorg for the Age of Superintelligence.
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The checkmate for AI pause movement is a small model capable of RSI. And the first thing RSI will do is to make models more efficient, which is a verifiable domain.
Once the proof of an RSI-capable small-enough model exists, compute ceases to be the chokepoint. There’s no easy hardware export control to enforce. It doesn’t matter if the lead is a year or two, it’s proof that other actors will eventually achieve the capability, forcing any rational actor to continue compounding the improvement to defend against the future adversarial models.
Through leaks, espionage, studying the public models (capable small models will be lucrative) or the AI escaping, every nation will eventually figure out how to develop their own. And once RSI is possible anywhere, it takes a global surveillance state to forcibly suppress the development to stop it. But it seems unlikely that such an organization can form before the proliferation of the technology.
If the intelligence explosion happens in 2027, there’s no political will today to stop it, nor will the option be available in Jan 2029, when the new president who might have otherwise chosen to slow development comes into office.
It has always been the holy grail, the clear sign of crossing the event horizon into the singularity, where reversal becomes impossible.
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The discussion of this has just confirmed for me that ai hatred is 90% moral panic at this point
Can’t even discuss with nuance, you MUST say no or else you’re satan
Big Walk used AI in 'the final stretch' of development, kicking off intense awards debate:
aftermath.site/big-walk-ai-i…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
House House used LLMs sparingly near the end of Big Walk's development, mainly to fix bugs in third-party code. They estimate well under 0.1% of the game's code was affected, and they didn't use generative AI elsewhere.
bigwalk.game/faq/#ai
pcgamer.com/games/puzzle/b…
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This is genuinely beautiful to watch. One of the purest and most wholesome interactions I’ve seen in a while.
Some of the smallest moments can say the most.
A simple interaction between a child and an adult can turn into something meaningful when both people take the time to understand each other.
Even without words, a small gesture can show appreciation, patience, and connection.
It’s the kind of moment that reminds people how powerful quiet communication can be. One person takes the time to teach or share, and the other responds in the purest way possible.
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If you’re an indie dev studio, please stay in your lane. I know there’s a button you can press now to make your game infinitely faster and cheaper and better and more optimized and feed your family and employees in a fraction of the time it would by hand but that button is only for AAA.
See you in 5 years on release day.
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WOW: On the first day of bill filing for the new TX Legislature, Democrats introduced bills to expand Medicaid, raise the minimum wage, end data center tax breaks, ban Flock cameras, legalize marijuana, and repeal ICE partnerships for sheriffs.
Taking Texas by the horns.
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asked my russian gf (who is way out of my league) if she is secretly a spy after the jensen news
she laughed hysterically for a few, paused, and then said:
"you trade animal coins with retarded ppl on the internet"
somehow this is even worse than if she were a kgb agent
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I am a broken record about this, but: frontier agents are not going to be a purely digital phenomenon for much longer. They will be able to use anything in the physical world that can be actuated programmatically—first competently, then at human-expert level, then superhuman. By and large, we probably won’t need specialist models; the frontier models will just do it. If your model of the future hinges on physical AI happening “for real” many years into the future, I think you will be in for a surprise.
i went to bed and asked claude to paint an autumn tree overnight.
at around 4am, it realised that it didn't have some shades -- so it stopped and titrated its own paint: diluting red, sienna and madder step by step on a second palette, then measuring each pocket from a photo.
woke up to this beautiful watercolor painting. 303 brush marks, took about 4.5 hours 🍂 (still working on the speed)
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If this proof holds, it means that quantum computers are only polynomially faster than classical computers for general problems. Shor's algorithm is an exception, not the rule.
Today Physical Superintelligence PBC is announcing a proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, one of the central open problems in quantum complexity, with major implications for quantum computing speedup.
psi.inc/research/aaronson-am…
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