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Cameron Berg

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01 / belief

I don't think I have solved the problem, but I think hopefully in the best case, I've I'm trying to move directionally towards solving this problem. And if we could solve it, then I think a lot of our angst about are we building systems that have capacity for experience becomes an extremely tractable empirical question, which notice does not require us solving hard problem of consciousness or, you know, doing another couple thousand years of philosophy.

“I don't think I have solved the problem, but I think hopefully in the best case, I've I'm trying to move directionally towards solving this problem. And if we could solve it, then I think a lot of our angst about are we building systems that have capacity for experience becomes an extremely tractable empirical question, which notice does not require us solving hard problem of consciousness or, you know, doing another couple thousand years of philosophy.”
Speaker
Cameron Berg
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

03 / belief

You build out a cognitive system that's sufficient, sufficiently sophisticated and capable. It may be that cognitive traits that we see in every other cognitive system, meaning, you know, animals we believe are complex animals, everyone is pretty confident, are conscious.

“You build out a cognitive system that's sufficient, sufficiently sophisticated and capable. It may be that cognitive traits that we see in every other cognitive system, meaning, you know, animals we believe are complex animals, everyone is pretty confident, are conscious.”
Speaker
Cameron Berg
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

04 / belief

We're in a transformative moment on this planet. And we ought to be pretty thoughtful about what we really want in the long term because I think if we try to keep everything thing and we want, we all, we want our happy slaves.

“We're in a transformative moment on this planet. And we ought to be pretty thoughtful about what we really want in the long term because I think if we try to keep everything thing and we want, we all, we want our happy slaves.”
Speaker
Cameron Berg
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

05 / belief

I think the intuition is something like around goals, your representations are going to get high resolution because you need different actions from different approach angles, like around danger.

“I think the intuition is something like around goals, your representations are going to get high resolution because you need different actions from different approach angles, like around danger.”
Speaker
Cameron Berg
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

06 / belief

In my view, Unfortunately, it's also consistent with a world in which Claude is a special kind of character and these features just light up on characters like, you know, going through stories.

“In my view, Unfortunately, it's also consistent with a world in which Claude is a special kind of character and these features just light up on characters like, you know, going through stories.”
Speaker
Cameron Berg
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution
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