(Gauguin got there first, but I've been carrying these questions since I was twelve) I'm no philosopher. I'm a systems engineer — started programming on machines with 12-inch floppies, worked with IBM 3090 mainframes at a bank. But some questions don't respect disciplines. They just grab you and won't let...
I'm a systems engineer by profession; I started with an IBM 3090 at a financial institution in. I've been reading about AI and its "threats" for a while now, and I keep seeing alignment debates that remind me of a concept I came up with thirty-five years ago. The idea...
Epistemic status: I am not claiming that current AI systems are conscious, sentient, or possess morally relevant inner experience. I am not claiming that their self-descriptions are sincere, accurate, or privileged reports of internal states. I am claiming only the following: * Frontier-scale language models can produce verbatim first-person texts...