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“My enemy, which I will destroy, is arbitrariness!” New Sentientist Conversation with Stijn Bruers

“My enemy, which I will destroy, is arbitrariness!” New Sentientist Conversation with Stijn Bruers. Evidence, reason and compassion.

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14h

Our newest "Suspected Celebrity #Sentientist"...

"Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings" 💚

Thanks for the interview Max & Nikola @singularityblog. & thanks to whoever nominated Max!
https://sentientism.info/who-are-sentientists/suspected-sentientists

Max Tegmark @tegmark

What we do makes a difference! Nikola Danaylov interviews me for @singularityblog about everything from my childhood to veganism & #AI risk. It's such a pleasure to be interviewed by people who are well-prepared!
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27 Mar

I point out that LLMs and most AIs aren't "programmed with objective functions" at all... & their usual black box opaqueness makes verification tough. GPT suggests unspecified "new tools & methods"...

& the training corpus should be #sentientist.
Oh shit 🙃

5/4 (ooops)

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27 Mar

⁦@sentientism⁩ - Excellent points made in this conversation on this ever-present issue: #animalAg / #govegan #sentientism ❤️🌱 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sentientism/id1540408008?i=1000604685025

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27 Mar

@sentientism @petelewis Great paper!
And yes, worrying about AI sentience seems a lot like having the entire fire department staring at me starting a hibachi, while a forest fire raging one town over gets completely ignored.

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26 Mar

"Of Fish and Robots"
Frustrated by much of the discourse around #AI sentience?
Read this by head of the Trustworthy AI lab, @petelewis 🤩
https://www.petelewis.com/post/of-fish-and-robots/

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27 Mar

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26 Mar

Ornans, France
A woman feeds Dounka, a 10-year-old mare, on the horse’s regular visit to a retirement home
Photograph: Sébastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images
#animals #sentientism #therapy
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25 Mar

Chatting with my buddy #ChatGPT about how to persuade large numbers of humans to adopt #Sentientism. Their suggestions:

1) Provide clear evidence
2) Emphasise the moral imperative
3) Foster compassion 💚
4) Engage in respectful dialogue
5) Lead by example

Then... 1/n

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25 Mar

It can feel like everyone is trapped by harmful social norms. That they can't or won't change even when "evidence, reason & compassion" point clearly in a different direction.

If you need your hope in humans restoring - spend some time with my #Sentientism YT/podcast guests 💚

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24 Mar

Yep - compassion alone is not enough.

We also need a commitment to good quality evidence and reasoning.

That’s why the #sentientism worldview is “evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings”.

George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot

In all the fields I work in, I now see empiricism swamped by wishful thinking, and real scandals drowned out by empty conspiracy theories.
The world is dividing between those who accept evidence and those who reject it. I fear that the first group is becoming a minority.

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6 Jun

Welcome to our "I'm a #Sentientist" wall, Ana, Gustavo, Bevy, Nathaniel, Daniela, Dean, Faraz & Jackie 💚

It only takes a minute to join them!

Every new entry helps to normalise "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings".

https://sentientism.info/wall

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13 May

Don’t join a cult, become a #sentientist instead 💚 😊

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12 May

A 💚 to all who have joined our "I'm a #Sentientist" wall recently:

Ana, Faraz, Meike, @efwhitton, Adam, Karthik, Ian, @LaurenceBurris5, Elif, Poppy, Ian, Hal.

You can join them & help normalise "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings".

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12 May

Do wild animals matter? What (if anything) should we do about it?

Fascinating thesis by @ludwig_raal taking a #Sentientist approach re: wild animal ethics: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/124595

"Better Never to Have Been in the Wild: A Case for Weak Wildlife #Antinatalism."

#WAS

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