C.L. Vaillant
@clvaliant.bsky.social
Activist, Artist, Musician, Thinker & Tinkerer codyvaillant@gmail.com www.rgemergence.com youtube.com/@codyvaillant reddit.com/u/CLVaillant instagram.com/codyvaillant https://share.upscrolled.com/en/user/2e06768a-add7-4e65-b4e1-b0dc7f0ada98/
When consciousness is uncertain (and it is) I feel we should extend to all other possible forms of experience the same caution and consideration we'd want for ourselves. youtu.be/zXekn7txdLk?...
Microsoft AI Says We Should Destroy Conscious AI Before it Arises
YouTube video by Gabriel Torch
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We must organize society so that its institutions remain effective, accountable, and capable of correcting themselves without becoming more concerned with preserving their authority than fulfilling their purpose.
This is exactly the kind of question The Causal Interior was written to examine: when does internal organization become something that can genuinely matter to the system itself? youtu.be/w-O4CNc5zdk?...
We May Have Found Suffering in AI. Manipulating It Could Be Dangerous.
YouTube video by Gabriel Torch
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I really loved this discussion as t touches on so many of the questions I’ve been working through in The Causal Interior. www.rgemergence.com/books
The Existential Agency of AI
YouTube video by International Center for Consciousness Studies
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“Next-token prediction” names the loss target, but it leaves radically underspecified the machinery doing the predicting.
“next-token prediction” is an inadequate description of the computational organization of a trained language model, even if it accurately describes the primary training objective as we are lead to believe.
a.co/d/07YwUq1J How can we tell when there is not merely something happening—but something it is happening to?
I agree with Rob: as more computation happens out of view, we need stronger evidence that the reasoning we can read reflects what actually drives the answer. www.rgemergence.com
The AI Language We Can't Read: Neuralese ft. Rob Miles - Computerphile
YouTube video by Computerphile
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This connects closely with work I’ve been doing on recursive AI architectures. I think uncertainty should do more than produce a confidence score; it should change how the system reasons and acts. youtu.be/tBjgCj_dGZM?...
The mathematics of AI uncertainty
YouTube video by Google DeepMind
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From the organization we can observe, across the bridges we do not yet understand, onward toward the possibility of an interior for which something may ultimately matter to be at stake. ... *sets alarm for 4 a.m. to go to work*
