I was part of the SPAR team that worked on Split Personality Training: Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Alternate Personalities. I ran some follow-ups. The views and mistakes here are my own. Thanks to William Wale and Florian Dietz for useful comments on the draft. TLDR: I ablated the key components...
This work was done as part of MATS 9.0, mentored by Patrick Butlin. All mistakes are mine. I'm posting this as a research report to get feedback. Please red-team, comment, and reach out. Thanks to Patrick Butlin for supervising, Daniel Paleka for regular feedback. Thanks to Patrick Butlin, Pierre Beckmann,...
In this post I want to lay down some ideas on a controversial philosophical position about consciousness: illusionism, and how it might impact the way we think about consciousness in AI. Illusionism, in a nutshell, proposes that phenomenal consciousness does not exist, although it seems to exist. My aim is...