... In popular media, there is often a connection drawn between the advent of awareness in artificial agents and those same agents simultaneously achieving human or superhuman level intelligence. ...

... We believe that doing so can enable the development of artificial agents which are not only more generally intelligent but are also consistent with multiple current theories of conscious function. ...

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... Price controls VERY occasionally have their uses — during wartime when rationing is rampant and perceived fairness/lack of profiteering are important 2/ There's also a *possible* argument for temporary controls to break a wage-price spiral that is persisting despite a weak economy — although making ...

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... The economy was still way below potential in 2015, and it's possible to recover rapidly from a recession with appropriate macro policy. And that should cause us to re-assess not only the economy of 2011 but the economy of 2006 too. ...

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But the fact that it's ineluctable. That is can serve as framework or foundation for building consensus among the community ...(15 more characters.)

Determinism can only be meaningful when it has practical implications, that is when the development of a system can be predicted ...(179 more characters.)

Because without agency there is no point talking or thinking about anything.

... I would establish a new image - the image of agents. and this image is incorrigible priori. In this image, there is no necessity (or inevitability) of a single mirror of nature. all the agents need is to be able to predict the world (self included) in all kinds of contexts. ...

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... It might be possible for Self-driving to use LLMs as foundations to build models that can predict the social behavior of humans on the street. ...

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... Through these connections and visualizations of them, the mind net aims to unlock new possibilities of human understanding and innovation. ...

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... If intergroup aggression has a biological foundation (possibly resulted from cultural group selection and cultural genome co-evolution), it's more than likely already an evolutionary mismatch. ...

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... It's only when we truly understand the origin of these behaviors, then we can possibly make some choices in deciding the meaning of being human. ...

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