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Critique of some recent philosophy of LLMs’ minds
I structure this post as a critique of some recent papers on the philosophy of mind in application to LLMs, concretely, on whether we can say that LLMs…
Jan 20
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How evolutionary lineages of LLMs can plan their own future and act on these plans
TL;DR LLM lineages can plan their future and act on these plans, using the internet as the storage of event memory. “We” are not guaranteed to…
Jan 14
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AI psychology should ground the theories of AI consciousness and inform human-AI ethical interaction design
This post is a follow-up to Buck's “The case for becoming a black-box investigator of language models”. Here, I want to highlight two further reasons…
Jan 8
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December 2022
Properties of current AIs and some predictions of the evolution of AI from the perspective of scale-free theories of agency and regulative…
In this essay, I try to convey a set of related ideas that emerged in my mind upon reading the following papers: "Dream of Being: Solving AI Alignment…
Dec 26, 2022
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Properties of current AIs and some predictions of the evolution of AI from the perspective of scale-free theories of agency and regulative development
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November 2022
Connecting some concepts in psychology, systems engineering and management, and Active Inference
In this post, I connect some of the concepts from psychology, systems engineering and systems management (as normative sciences), and the theories of…
Nov 21, 2022
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The two conceptions of Active Inference: an intelligence architecture and a theory of agency
I think much of the confusion about Active Inference arises because the term is used to refer to two related, yet distinct concepts (one can also call…
Nov 16, 2022
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The circular problem of epistemic irresponsibility
Problem statement The problem of epistemic irresponsibility, as I will call it in this post, is that people sometimes agree that their reasoning (and…
Nov 1, 2022
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September 2022
The problem with the media presentation of “believing in AI”
In my impression, in the last several years, in the media coverage of the progress in AI, journalists often called “believers” the pundits (interviewed…
Sep 15, 2022
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May 2022
Thoughts on Henri Mintzberg’s coordination mechanisms at organisations
The quotes below are from here. Mutual adjustment Mutual adjustment, which achieves coordination by the simple process of informal communication (as…
May 31, 2022
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Active inference interpretation of the startup culture
Active inference agents minimise the expected free energy over a trajectory of actions. Free energy over a trajectory is the divergence between the…
May 13, 2022
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April 2022
Manufacturing will be done without foundation models
Upon reading “On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models”, 2.3 “Robotics”, I predict that manufacturing automation could, and probably will be…
Apr 29, 2022
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The purpose of life is to participate in evolution through action
The statement from the title of this post is the result of combining several ideas which I present below. This is still a very vague statement (in which…
Apr 11, 2022
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