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Janus' GPT Wrangling
Scott Alexander discusses Janus' experiments with GPT-3, exploring its capabilities, quirks, and potential implications.
17 min read 2,491 words
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self-awareness
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Essays on self-awareness
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Highlights From The Comments On Acemoglu And AI
Scott Alexander responds to comments on his AI risk post, discussing AI self-awareness, narrow vs. general AI, catastrophe probabilities, and research priorities.
37 min read 5,613 words
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It's not like anything to be a bat
Scott presents an anthropic argument suggesting animals might lack subjective experience, based on the observation that if animals were conscious, we would statistically be much more likely to be animals than humans.
5 min read 682 words