You write that you don’t really know what the theory entails for AGI’s consciousness, so isn’t the actual application for the meta-problem of consciousness still wide open?
I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on the solution to the meta-problem of consciousness but that I remain pretty confused and unsatisfied about the hard problem of consciousness. This is ironic because I was just saying that the hard problem should be relatively straightforward once you have the meta-problem nailed down. But “relatively straightforward” is still not trivial, especially given that I’m not an expert in the philosophy of consciousness and don’t want to spend the time to become one.
Surprising choice of examples, as my first thought was for the use of thinking about suffering in empathy, which sounds like a big missing part in many unaligned AGI.
Sure, but I think I was mentally lumping that under “social instincts”, which is a different section. Hmm, I guess I should have drawn an arrow between understanding suffering and understanding social instincts. They do seem to interact a bit.
I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on the solution to the meta-problem of consciousness but that I remain pretty confused and unsatisfied about the hard problem of consciousness. This is ironic because I was just saying that the hard problem should be relatively straightforward once you have the meta-problem nailed down. But “relatively straightforward” is still not trivial, especially given that I’m not an expert in the philosophy of consciousness and don’t want to spend the time to become one.
Sure, but I think I was mentally lumping that under “social instincts”, which is a different section. Hmm, I guess I should have drawn an arrow between understanding suffering and understanding social instincts. They do seem to interact a bit.