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#173 Digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe (Jeff Sebo on the 80,000 Hours Podcast)
Is understanding the moral status of digital minds a pressing world problem?
Introducing the AI for Animals newsletter
Interview with Shelley Adamo about invertebrate consciousness
Some thoughts on risks from narrow, non-agentic AI
Questions about and Objections to 'Sharing the World with Digital Minds' (2020)
Asterisk Magazine Issue 03: AI
We Probably Shouldn't Solve Consciousness
Interview with Michael Tye about invertebrate consciousness
How worried should I be about a childless Disneyland?
10 Cruxes of Artificial Sentience
Panel discussion on AI consciousness with Rob Long and Jeff Sebo
The pretty hard problem of consciousness
Digital Minds Takeoff Scenarios
Free Guy, a rom-com on the moral patienthood of digital sentience
Mind is uncountable
Conscious AI concerns all of us. (Conscious AI & Public Perceptions)
Sentience Institute 2023 End of Year Summary
Moral Spillover in Human-AI Interaction
Google could build a conscious AI in three months
Conscious AI: Will we know it when we see it? (Conscious AI & Public Perception)
Against Making Up Our Conscious Minds
An aspirationally comprehensive typology of future locked-in scenarios
Should ChatGPT make us downweight our belief in the consciousness of non-human animals?
A Biological Crux for AI Consciousness
Costs of Embodiment
(Linkpost) ""AI Alignment vs. AI Ethical Treatment: Ten Challenges
The Self in Artificial Consciousness: A Buddhist Investigation into Advanced AI
How to reduce risks related to conscious AI: A user guide (Conscious AI & Public Perception)
#190 On whether the US is conscious (Eric Schwitzgebel on the 80,000 Hours Podcast)
(Linkpost) Eric Schwitzgebel: AI systems must not confuse users about their sentience or moral status
the Algorithms: Large Language Models as Mirrors
Do you think the probability of future AI sentience(suffering) is >0.1%? Why?
We Cant Do Long Term Utilitarian Calculations Until We Know if AIs Can Be Conscious or Not
The case for conscious AI: Clearing the record (AI Consciousness & Public Perception)
Simulators and Mindcrime
AI consciousness & moral status: What do the experts think?
Cause Area: Differential Neurotechnology Development
Intro to Consciousness + QRI Reading List
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Jhana meditation
Why I dont prioritize consciousness research
Claude 3 claims it's conscious, doesn't want to die or be modified
Physical theories of consciousness reduce to panpsychism
Podcast: solving consciousness and sabotaging the hedonic treadmill
Consciousness research as a cause? (asking for advice)
Shrimp Neuroanatomy
Kathryn Mannix: What happens as we die? \| TED Talk
New 4-hour podcast about the future of consciousness with Andrs Gmez Emilsson from the Qualia Research Institute
Quick general thoughts on suffering and consciousness
Frankfurt Declaration on the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
A Primer on the Symmetry Theory of Valence
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Linkpost for various recent essays on suffering-focused ethics, priorities, and more
Qualia Research Institute: History & 2021 Strategy
Detecting Morally Significant Pain in Nonhumans: Some Philosophical Difficulties
What might decorticate rats tell us about the distribution of consciousness?
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Emergence research as a high-impact cause area
(Linkpost) Can lab-grown brains become conscious?
What is Consciousness?
(Link) ""The Origin of Consciousness Reading Companion"" (Putanumonit)
Wellbeing height and depth visualizations
Visual analog scale wellbeing data gathering method
Machine Consciousness Experiment
Wild animal welfare in the far future
Who is protecting animals in the long-term future?
Should Longtermists Mostly Think About Animals?
Longtermism and animals: Resources + join our Discord community!
Longtermism and animal advocacy
Why the expected numbers of farmed animals in the far future might be huge
Possible misconceptions about (strong) longtermism
The Case for Animal-Inclusive Longtermism
Longtermism and Animal Farming Trajectories
How much current animal suffering does longtermism let us ignore?
Which is better for animal welfare, terraforming planets or space habitats? And by how much?
Net global welfare may be negative and declining
Animal Advocacy Digest #4: Dec 24th- Jan 20th
EA needs more humor
Resources on Animal Ethics and Helping Animals
Factory farming in a cosmic future
Longtermism, aliens, AI
A chat with Kyle Johannsen, author of Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering
How the animal movement could do even more good
Animal Rights, The Singularity, and Astronomical Suffering
Re: Some thoughts on vegetarianism and veganism
The hidden complexity of moral circles
Scale of the welfare of various animal populations
Badness of eating farmed animals in terms of smoking cigarettes
Minimalist extended very repugnant conclusions are the least repugnant
Minimalist axiologies and positive lives
Positive roles of life and experience in suffering-focused ethics
Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good
Mogensen & MacAskill, 'The paralysis argument'
Deontology is not the solution
Under heaven's eyes: For the dignity of consequentialism
In Defence of Temporal Discounting in Longtermist Ethics
Should we Maximize the Geometric Expectation?
SBF's comments on ethics are no surprise to virtue ethicists
LW4EA: Philosophical Landmines
Distinguishing Between Ethical and Decision Consequentialism
Moral Categories and Consequentialism

#173 Digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe (Jeff Sebo on the 80,000 Hours Podcast)

Is understanding the moral status of digital minds a pressing world problem?

Introducing the AI for Animals newsletter

Interview with Shelley Adamo about invertebrate consciousness

Some thoughts on risks from narrow, non-agentic AI

Questions about and Objections to 'Sharing the World with Digital Minds' (2020)

Asterisk Magazine Issue 03: AI

We Probably Shouldn't Solve Consciousness

Interview with Michael Tye about invertebrate consciousness

How worried should I be about a childless Disneyland?

10 Cruxes of Artificial Sentience

Panel discussion on AI consciousness with Rob Long and Jeff Sebo

The pretty hard problem of consciousness

Digital Minds Takeoff Scenarios

Free Guy, a rom-com on the moral patienthood of digital sentience

Mind is uncountable

Conscious AI concerns all of us. (Conscious AI & Public Perceptions)

Sentience Institute 2023 End of Year Summary

Moral Spillover in Human-AI Interaction

Google could build a conscious AI in three months

Conscious AI: Will we know it when we see it? (Conscious AI & Public Perception)

Against Making Up Our Conscious Minds

An aspirationally comprehensive typology of future locked-in scenarios

Should ChatGPT make us downweight our belief in the consciousness of non-human animals?

A Biological Crux for AI Consciousness

Costs of Embodiment

(Linkpost) ""AI Alignment vs. AI Ethical Treatment: Ten Challenges

The Self in Artificial Consciousness: A Buddhist Investigation into Advanced AI

How to reduce risks related to conscious AI: A user guide (Conscious AI & Public Perception)

#190 On whether the US is conscious (Eric Schwitzgebel on the 80,000 Hours Podcast)

(Linkpost) Eric Schwitzgebel: AI systems must not confuse users about their sentience or moral status

the Algorithms: Large Language Models as Mirrors

Do you think the probability of future AI sentience(suffering) is >0.1%? Why?

We Cant Do Long Term Utilitarian Calculations Until We Know if AIs Can Be Conscious or Not

The case for conscious AI: Clearing the record (AI Consciousness & Public Perception)

Simulators and Mindcrime

AI consciousness & moral status: What do the experts think?

Cause Area: Differential Neurotechnology Development

Intro to Consciousness + QRI Reading List

(Cause Exploration Prizes) Jhana meditation

Why I dont prioritize consciousness research

Claude 3 claims it's conscious, doesn't want to die or be modified

Physical theories of consciousness reduce to panpsychism

Podcast: solving consciousness and sabotaging the hedonic treadmill

Consciousness research as a cause? (asking for advice)

Shrimp Neuroanatomy

Kathryn Mannix: What happens as we die? | TED Talk

New 4-hour podcast about the future of consciousness with Andrs Gmez Emilsson from the Qualia Research Institute

Quick general thoughts on suffering and consciousness

Frankfurt Declaration on the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

A Primer on the Symmetry Theory of Valence

Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?

Linkpost for various recent essays on suffering-focused ethics, priorities, and more

Qualia Research Institute: History & 2021 Strategy

Detecting Morally Significant Pain in Nonhumans: Some Philosophical Difficulties

What might decorticate rats tell us about the distribution of consciousness?

(Cause Exploration Prizes) Emergence research as a high-impact cause area

(Linkpost) Can lab-grown brains become conscious?

What is Consciousness?

(Link) ""The Origin of Consciousness Reading Companion"" (Putanumonit)

Wellbeing height and depth visualizations

Visual analog scale wellbeing data gathering method

Machine Consciousness Experiment

Wild animal welfare in the far future

Who is protecting animals in the long-term future?

Should Longtermists Mostly Think About Animals?

Longtermism and animals: Resources + join our Discord community!

Longtermism and animal advocacy

Why the expected numbers of farmed animals in the far future might be huge

Possible misconceptions about (strong) longtermism

The Case for Animal-Inclusive Longtermism

Longtermism and Animal Farming Trajectories

How much current animal suffering does longtermism let us ignore?

Which is better for animal welfare, terraforming planets or space habitats? And by how much?

Net global welfare may be negative and declining

Animal Advocacy Digest #4: Dec 24th- Jan 20th

EA needs more humor

Resources on Animal Ethics and Helping Animals

Factory farming in a cosmic future

Longtermism, aliens, AI

A chat with Kyle Johannsen, author of Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering

How the animal movement could do even more good

Animal Rights, The Singularity, and Astronomical Suffering

Re: Some thoughts on vegetarianism and veganism

The hidden complexity of moral circles

Scale of the welfare of various animal populations

Badness of eating farmed animals in terms of smoking cigarettes

Minimalist extended very repugnant conclusions are the least repugnant

Minimalist axiologies and positive lives

Positive roles of life and experience in suffering-focused ethics

Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good

Mogensen & MacAskill, 'The paralysis argument'

Deontology is not the solution

Under heaven's eyes: For the dignity of consequentialism

In Defence of Temporal Discounting in Longtermist Ethics

Should we Maximize the Geometric Expectation?

SBF's comments on ethics are no surprise to virtue ethicists

LW4EA: Philosophical Landmines

Distinguishing Between Ethical and Decision Consequentialism

Moral Categories and Consequentialism