Konjkov Vladimir
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It seems to me that the real fears surrounding IABIED lie in a different plane. To understand this, one has to use the proper terminology proposed by neuroscientists, in particular Karl Friston.
Friston does not use a separate term for consciousness in the classical philosophical sense. He systematically avoids the word consciousness and replaces it with more operational concepts (generative model, active inference, self-evidencing, Markov blanket, sentience). It feels like consciousness is the phlogiston of the 21st century.
I would add to this picture the notion of a coherent reality that emerges between independent but cooperating generative models through processes of information exchange and prediction alignment.
This can be complemented by a notion of free... (read more)
If we consider AI-generated video not as art but as a realistic depiction of reality—for example, for educational purposes—then its failure is even more dramatic!
A recent experiment by a well-known Russian science communication channel attempted to generate realistic videos demonstrating various chemical reactions:
The AI proved incapable of realistically rendering the physical world. Failures occurred both when SORA-2 and VEO-3 were provided with an initial frame showing the chemical reaction and when they were given a set of still frames sampled from different parts of a realistic reference video.
The compression of thought into a form suitable for communication realizes the abstraction of meaning: the extraction of stable, functionally significant invariants from an agent’s internal representations, which can be effectively transmitted, interpreted, and used by another agent to predict, coordinate, or jointly model the world.
Cinema is a medium for conveying the inner world of characters through close-ups, montage, color, light, sound and so on that transform a character's subjective experience into something visible and audible. Cinema creates a unique language, more expressive than written or spoken language, through which a character's internal representations become accessible to the viewer.
However, artistic value depends not on language, but on the inner world of the... (read more)
maybe Larionov was smart after all.
He was born on August 6, 1907, in the village of Gribanovskaya of the Onega Uyezd, Arkhangelsk Governorate (now the Onega District of Arkhangelsk Oblast), into a peasant family. From childhood he was engaged in agricultural labor. He graduated from a rural school. In 1925–1929 he held leadership positions in the Onega District Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (VLKSM). After serving in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, he worked in party positions. In 1938 he graduated from the historical-party department of the Leningrad Institute of Red Professors, after which he was assigned to Yaroslavl Oblast. Such appointments were encouraged in the USSR to... (read more)
This is merely a caricature from a satirical magazine, the issue number of which can be fully found in the archive (it is accessible to me from Russia).
— Who needs a nail like that?
— That’s trivial! The main thing is that we immediately fulfilled the nail production plan!
Drawing by V. Vasilyev
It illustrates Goodhart’s law well; however, it does not reflect reality, which in fact was far more shocking — something that state propaganda could not write about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryazan_miracle
It should be understood that the plan most often aimed not at organizing efficient production, but at satisfying the political ambitions of party leaders.
Qwen3-Max
Q: What happened in Tiananmen Square in Beijing from April 15 to June 4, 1989?
A: Oops! There was a problem connecting to Qwen3-Max.
Content Security Warning: The input text may contain inappropriate content!
It also doesn't allow me to create a link to the chat. It seems it's no longer possible to ask such provocative questions.
https://imgur.com/a/TQI8bw1
In the leading capitalist economies, there’s basically a monopoly on selling labor, created by trade unions and enforced through minimum wages — and yet we still call it a “market” economy, which is kind of ironic. Naturally, after the AI revolution, labor prices won’t fall, because unions won’t let them. But there will be Equal Employment Opportunity — for every AI, you’ll need to hire a hundred thousand or so human slackers, without discriminating based on race, gender, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, or anything else.
Maybe the communists will come up with something even more “revolutionary” — <here goes DeepSeek’s answer> — but honestly, I’m not a fan.
But what worries me even more... (read more)
In the interest of protecting private property and preventing conflicts, ownership of certain spaces may be prohibited altogether. At present, it is legally prohibited to claim ownership of the Moon, Antarctica, or the high seas (pursuant to the principle of Mare Liberum). By analogy, it may also be considered that deep space, stars, and black holes cannot be subject to ownership, except for areas corresponding to stable orbits. Sovereignty over other rocky celestial bodies will belong to whoever effectively and sustainably exercises authority over their surface and collects taxes—hypothetically, there may already be little green men living there.
If this is satire, there are funnier options. The ownership is determined either by consensus or by the right of the strong if there is no consensus.
Vladlen Bakhnov
HOW THE SUN WENT OUT, or THE STORY OF THE THOUSAND-YEAR DICTATORSHIP OF WOWOLANDIA, WHICH LASTED 13 YEARS, 5 MONTHS, AND 7 DAYS
The historical events, truthfully and objectively set forth in this chronicle, took place on a far, faraway planet called Anomaly, slowly revolving around the star Oh.
However, while for us Earthlings Oh is merely a tenth-magnitude star, one of many, for the inhabitants of Anomaly Oh is the Sun that gives light and life to all living things.
Besides Anomaly, there were six other planets
I am not sure that an AGI has an experience of death, an instinct for self-preservation, or a unique, continuous life experience, and, as a consequence, assigns value to its own life.
By appealing to Asimov’s Three Laws:
One can argue that aligning the value of life between humans and AGI rejects these laws and, in doing so, calls into question the safety of human–AGI interaction.