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| | beingres.org
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| | This essay seeks to critically examine some of the strategies (critical, political, and aesthetic) implemented by a previous generation of feminist thinkers, and to understand which elements of thi...
| | opentheory.net
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| | [AI summary] The text presents a critique of the Foundational Research Institute's (FRI) approach to defining and addressing suffering and s-risks, with a focus on the philosophical and metaphysical challenges of functionalism. The author, Mike Johnson, argues that FRI's reliance on functionalism leads to intractable problems, such as the inability to provide a clear, disagreement-mediating definition of suffering. He outlines several objections to FRI's position, including the ineffability of suffering, intuition duels, convergence requirements, and the mapping of consciousness to physical systems. Johnson suggests that FRI should consider alternative frameworks, such as computational hierarchies, to address these issues. The text also references various so...
| | qualiacomputing.com
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| | by Mike Johnson The following is my considered evaluation of the Foundational Research Institute, circa July 2017. I discuss its goal, where I foresee things going wrong with how it defines suffering, and what it could do to avoid these problems. TL;DR version: functionalism ("consciousness is the sum-total of the functional properties of our brains")...
| | amatria.in
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| 2024 has been an intense year for AI. While some argue that we haven't made much progress, I beg to differ. It is true that many of the research advances from 2023 have still not made it to mainstream applications. But, that doesn't mean that research is not making progress all around!