For instance, I think experiencing consciousness is likely an unfiltered ground-reality phenomenon - the system experiencing it is the experience. Experiencing the concept of "mass" is detached by ~1 more step but "atoms" or "anthropology" are detached by maybe ~2 more steps.

So interestingly, "being in a simulation" might be a continuous variable that depends on the number of steps that happen between phenomena existing and being registered - and for different phenomena the number of steps might be different!

Narrative optimism vs epistemic optimism forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yuzauM...

(Here, I asked GPT if it sounds like the Chinese way of thinking to support Russia partly because if the West lost, it would be evidence for the fact that the West is morally in the wrong, even in the case of defending Taiwan)

The problem may be that this info depends on emotional emphasis and it's hard to say "use emotion only when appropriate", given LLMs ' immunity to negative prompts. E.g. I learnt about this doctrine but GPT can't tell me "how much it 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 manifests in people's thinking"

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Very common www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/...

most important research may lie within cog-sci:
a) Interpreting values using brain-computer interface & the correlates of consciousness
b) (Dis)analogies between human & AI value formation
c) Modelling how extrapolation & integration of preferences might actually work

From "Heuristic use of perceptual evidence leads to dissociation between performance and metacognitive sensitivity" link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

People were briefly shown the image and asked to say where they saw the lines. The higher the contrast, the better they did -but the worse they did at estimating how good they were.
That's because crisper noise bears both more positive and negative evidence.
Why are we like this?

One example of regulation defending our values are the laws that say you shouldn't kill a person. I think making sure this law is followed by AGIs would take us most of the way to the optimal situation.

I agree relying on non-profits to determine humanity's values is insufficient, we need regulation.
But the problem with OAI wasn't that the board turned evil but that the rest of the economy made it irrelevant.

Haha, true, although I do think it might be the best example. A boringly common smell might communicate qualia's non-trivial dimensionality and irreducibility without extra connotations the best