Caek Islove 🍰 💖 on Nostr: More to the point, I see neither scientific value nor existential risk arising from ...

More to the point, I see neither scientific value nor existential risk arising from this "experiment". They are text generators. They will generate text based on the theme of "pain" or "suffering" if you ask them. The model doesn't feel pain when it writes about pain. If you think this is TOTALLY DIFFERENT, then please try an experiment here yourself. Pick up a pen and spend the next 5 minutes writing a story about you being captured, stripped naked and raped by a monster. When you are done, look at the story. Nice, maybe? Very sexy and very realistic, if you are a good writer, right? Now open your eyes and look at your holes. Completely unravished by monsters.

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Basically he has a bunch of AIs being constantly prompted that they're getting spikes rammed up their fingernails or set on file and is observing how they respond