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Ra­tion­al­ism and so­cial rationalism

philosophybearMar 10, 2023, 11:20 PM
17 points
5 comments10 min readLW link
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Repub­lish­ing an old es­say in light of cur­rent news on Bing’s AI: “Re­gard­ing Blake Le­moine’s claim that LaMDA is ‘sen­tient’, he might be right (sorta), but per­haps not for the rea­sons he thinks”

philosophybearFeb 17, 2023, 3:27 AM
3 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

ChatGPT un­der­stands language

philosophybearJan 27, 2023, 7:14 AM
27 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
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The AI Con­trol Prob­lem in a wider in­tel­lec­tual context

philosophybearJan 13, 2023, 12:28 AM
11 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

Ver­bal par­ity: What is it and how to mea­sure it? + an ed­ited ver­sion of “Against John Searle, Gary Mar­cus, the Chi­nese Room thought ex­per­i­ment and its world”

philosophybearDec 31, 2022, 3:46 AM
2 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

Lan­guage mod­els are nearly AGIs but we don’t no­tice it be­cause we keep shift­ing the bar

philosophybearDec 30, 2022, 5:15 AM
105 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

Against John Searle, Gary Mar­cus, the Chi­nese Room thought ex­per­i­ment and its world

philosophybearDec 29, 2022, 3:26 AM
21 points
43 comments8 min readLW link

Re­gard­ing Blake Le­moine’s claim that LaMDA is ‘sen­tient’, he might be right (sorta), but per­haps not for the rea­sons he thinks

philosophybearDec 28, 2022, 1:55 AM
9 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Re­cent ad­vances in Nat­u­ral Lan­guage Pro­cess­ing—Some Woolly spec­u­la­tions (2019 es­say on se­man­tics and lan­guage mod­els)

philosophybearDec 27, 2022, 2:11 AM
1 point
0 comments7 min readLW link

Theod­icy and the simu­la­tion hy­poth­e­sis, or: The prob­lem of simu­la­tor evil

philosophybearDec 26, 2022, 6:55 PM
12 points
12 comments19 min readLW link
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