This weekend's reading for me, is going to be going deep into the ethics of cognitive liberty, AI, and neural interfaces. Quite a bit of interesting stuff going on this space, and excited to get up to speed on it. My instinct is there's serious dangers ahead for us to be thinking about as a society.
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I literally just listened to Nita's interview on Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast and this book is already in my Audible Library, ready to go!
Nice! Kent Bye also has an interview raising interesting points 👇✨
Another item on the stack! Thank you!
Is it ethical to have to pay for access to better ai models?
AI models in what sense?
In current open ai sense, but also later.
I think your question is a generally interesting one, that I think is of potential real concern into the future. For instance, imagine having a brain-neural interface that augments your intelligence. If your wealth is what determines who much your intelligence is augmented, then you've introduced a permanent structural set of power dynamics with deep social, cultural and economic consequences.
Better to have causality decoded computing not needing to be invasive.
Can’t escape causality, dead or alive.
This sequence of words does not make sense to me.
How so?
What’s the difficulty to understand causality?
“What people call #AI is no more than using correlation to find answers to questions we know to ask. Real #AI has awareness of causality, leading to answering questions we haven't dreamed of yet.” - Tom Golway
Yes I think everyone here understands that we just use AI as shorthand for the things we have now.
No, wouldn’t wanna crook sam with terminal blood cancers now, would we?
Then why Sam is scared shitless doesn’t require rocket surgeons to grasp
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I don’t have a clue what you’re saying. Maybe it makes sense in your head because you are thinking in context of another thought but I can’t read your mind …
Insinuating false cores doesn’t really help with preventing Sam’s disease.
Who am I to judge when we are feeding greed by making false claims to justify raping?
And the funny thing is that our greed is killing Sam feeding the terminal crookedness.
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Not about you is it, to go what I don’t.
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Do you under better now or still acting dumb?
No, I don’t think faking the illusion of intelligence makes me believe.
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Yes? Sure about that?
How do I have?!
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I haven't thought deeply about this question. But it certainly has, what I might characterize as, relatively obvious surface level concerns.
Unsurprisingly to people who are familiar with my views more broadly, you might expect that I'd view this as yet another example of why I think market maximalism as an ethical foundation for organizing society is, actually a pretty terrible idea. I think the reason it's terrible are not hard to grasp. I think the people who argue for it, engage in a pretty epic amount of motivated reasoning, if not outright ignorance of domains for which they have little or no understanding.
But yeah, this is an important question.
Yes, this is one of many concerns.
I worry that if the rich are the only ones who can get the good models, we may currently be seeing a speciation event.