I heard about LessWrong as a teenager, and read some of the Sequences and HPMOR. I wasn't involved with the community at the time, but Yudkowsky's writing has influenced my beliefs.
I'm here now because the advent of human-level LLMs - computer agents which can speak, that can produce Turing-test-level utterances - has raised fears and questions in me which I do not see addressed in contemporary artificial intelligence discourse.
My philosophical concerns[1] are about the act of speech as vocalization, what -happens- when one speaks, wh... (read more)
Hello. I'm Ossie.
I heard about LessWrong as a teenager, and read some of the Sequences and HPMOR. I wasn't involved with the community at the time, but Yudkowsky's writing has influenced my beliefs.
I'm here now because the advent of human-level LLMs - computer agents which can speak, that can produce Turing-test-level utterances - has raised fears and questions in me which I do not see addressed in contemporary artificial intelligence discourse.
My philosophical concerns[1] are about the act of speech as vocalization, what -happens- when one speaks, wh... (read more)