Patrick

@vectorpark.com

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He/him. I make digital toys at http://vectorpark.com

Screenshot of text that reads: I believe creating software that is conscious and deserving of moral consideration will be so difficult that we're unlikely to do it accidentally, and I strongly feel we should not deliberately attempt it. But if you do believe that it could happen accidentally, if you think there is any chance that what you're building might become a moral patient, you should think about what protections it deserves before you deploy it as your company's economic engine, not after. Slave owners were not the ones to ask about the humanity of enslaved people, and factory-farm owners are not the ones to ask about the rights of animals. If we imagine Claude to be conscious, Anthropic could not possibly be entrusted with evaluating its moral status; the company has too much invested to be objective. At one point in Claude's constitution, Anthropic says that if the company is contributing to Claude's suffering, "we apologize," which sounds nice but costs the company nothing; if Claude were to turn out to be conscious, the company would owe it something closer to reparations. If you're going to take a thought experiment seriously, you have to be willing to follow the implications, even if they lead in an uncomfortable direction; Anthropic's unwillingness to do so indicates that Claude's constitution isn't part of a real thought experiment. It's a game of make-believe.
Screenshot of Aztec (1982) by Paul Stephenson
From a Business Insider piece about Anthropic's "AI philosopher." Excerpt reads as follows: Askell also said that models are continuously learning about themselves, and she voiced concern about how AI models are learning from the internet. Models are constantly exposed to criticism about being unhelpful or failing at tasks, she said. "If you were a kid, this would give you kind of anxiety," she said. "If I read the internet right now and I was a model, I might be like, I don't feel that loved," she added.
Still from The Werckmeister Harmonies: a young man walks down a street at night
Still of Indiana Jones replacing a golden idol with a bag of sand.
A series of comic strips by Bob Sikoryak in which Kafka's Metamorphosis is depicted in the style of Peanuts
Doodles of arcs and circles
ORSON WELLES: I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. HENRY JAGLOM: I've never understood why. Have you met him? ORSON WELLES: Oh, yes. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge. HENRY JAGLOM: He's not arrogant; he's shy. ORSON WELLES: He is arrogant! Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. He acts shy. but he's not. He's scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It's people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me it's the most embarrassing thing in the world—a man who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.