#types

The 4 types of AI consciousness/feeling

Here I'm trying to propose a framework for people to better think about what LLMs might subjectively experience, which tends to get discussed like it's a binary thing, when really there's a whole spectrum of possibilities. These were the 4 categories that seemed most natural to me. AI consciousness keeps getting discussed like it’s a binary thing, when it’s anything but. Anil Seth is a public intellectual with as much success as one can obtain without being a household name: He’s written a bestseller ( Being You: A New Science of Consciousness ), he’s given TED talks, he’s been in documentarie

LessWrong · EN

Five Types of “Corrigibility Projects” I Don’t Want to Fund

I'm currently evaluating grant applications for the Corrigibility Research Fund . For the most part, my methodology is the same as it was in September . But the applications I get keep falling into the same familiar patterns, so I thought I'd write a little about those patterns, and why I don't want to fund them. The most superficial pattern of note is SLOP. So much slop. You don't even know . Slop is more than just whether an application is AI generated. We're now in an era where people across the world, including those who don't really speak English, can contribute to work that would otherwi

LessWrong · EN

Using SwiftUI’s ContentBuilder with Non-View Types

Using SwiftUI’s result builder to assemble a type-safe deep-link router.

Artem Novichkov · EN