Judd Rosenblatt
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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And then go into the technical details because you can dispute the theory of consciousness as much as you want.
But the cool thing is, it did accurately predict what's winds up happening in artificial agents, which is some validation.
Even if you say there's more to consciousness, this doesn't really cover it.
Still, it's useful for this itself.
I think it's a shame that people don't understand what consciousness is, and we might be about to have it emerge, or maybe it already has, because we don't even know what it is in large.
I think it's very important to better understand it at a much smaller level because then you decrease one existential risk, potentially, two, you substantially like do work to increase probability of solving alignment, like the work we're doing seems to be hopefully doing.
You use decrease moral patienthood concerns because you better understand it at a smaller level first, uh rather than having it uh be worse at a bigger level, potentially.
You also better understand
What you need to understand to find out for all we know, maybe LLMs are already conscious in some form and we have no idea because we don't know what consciousness is.
The better we understand it on a smaller level, the better we'll be able to figure that out.
Maybe they are, maybe they're not, and there's no valence to it.
We don't know, but those are things that are worth finding out.
Still, our focus is on solving alignment in particular.
And if that happens to move forward consciousness research, that would be good.
We do think the neglected approach of real scientific mechanistic approaches to consciousness.
research is essential and really important to do in the first place to better understand what consciousness is, to s better solve alignment.
Our focus here is on solving the alignment stuff, not on understanding what consciousness is.
It's worth noting that the a perfect model of attention would be computationally expensive and unnecessarily detailed.
So
there is benefit to having this simplified model and it's more easily manipulated by other cognitive processes and it lets you do quicker decision making and predictions about attentional states.
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