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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...
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| | Do biological minds have a future?
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| | Two essays about the future of minds written by people more rigorous and educated than me both make a mistake - at least what I perceive as a mistake - that seems like a very strange mistake for such intelligent people to make. My hypothesis is that I'm missing something. Maybe explaining why I think ...
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| A balanced perspective on OpenAI's GPT-3. We summarize how the A.I. research community is thinking about Open AI's new language model.