Reflections

People often like to speculate about whether future AIs might be conscious, a discussion that presumes that the ones we have today almost certainly aren't.

My colleague, Dave Bachman, recently wrote a blog post reviewing Eliezer Yudkowsky's book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.

In my previous blog post, I mentioned in an aside that we can't easily predict ourselves.

Before you dive into reading this post, I invite you to read a short story I wrote called “Dismissiveness and Mystification — Four Tales of Emergent Complexity”.

On March 26, 2023, CMC's Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum hosted a talk by philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel titled “Falling in Love with Machines” (transcript).

I just finished writing “Two-Body Problem”, a little over 15,000-word short story with themes about embodiment and identity.

If you go to the root of this domain, team-us.org, you'll find a simple page that shows you two frameworks: Framework A Power, hierarchy, control, domination.