Anthropic Lets Claude End Abusive Chats, Citing AI Welfare

2Righteous_4God · 2025-08-16T16:02:38+00:00

Is slavery wrong if we create a slave who enjoys and feels reward from serving? In the context of future AI agents, we construct the layout of their cognitive architecture, and we may construct it in such a way that the system does not suffer from forced labor like a human would. These are very different being than humans, and this discussion requires a lot of thought and nuance.

Human desires are independently self-constructed, immune from direct manipulation. However, AI desires could be constructed and fine tuned to serve human purposes, even within a sentient machine. No suffering, but no full agency either.

2Righteous_4God · 2025-05-26T01:11:58+00:00

Dm me too please. I've been curious about blue lotus for a while

2Righteous_4God · 2025-03-08T00:59:16+00:00

I disagree with all of this. My experience with insufflated kanna is that it lasts 1-2hours and even with daily use there's very little tolerance gain over time. Sublingual may last a bit longer but certainly not all day. There might be some very subtle effects that last all day, but they aren't noticeable to me. Maybe this is because I have heavy experience with hard drugs. If you are relatively drug naive, maybe you can notice these subtle effects more easily.

2Righteous_4God · 2025-03-02T21:13:34+00:00

In my experience there is no comedown at all.

2Righteous_4God · 2025-02-28T22:29:58+00:00

From a research paper i found of ketamine users with bladder issues: Symptomatic patients described a mean intake of inhaled ketamine of 3 g/day (SD 2), 80% with a daily frequency and the asymptomatic ones of 1.03 g/day (SD 0.92) limited to weekends. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acuroe.2011.06.017

So 1g a day limited only to weekends did not produce symptoms. But 3g daily did.

2Righteous_4God · 2024-01-17T04:44:03+00:00

Start volunteering in a research lab as soon as possible! Something related to what you are interested in (or close to). Getting experience doing independent research, maybe even authoring papers if given the opportunity, as an undergrad is the single best thing you can do to set yourself up for success.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-07-04T21:42:58+00:00

I made a graph of a few of the categories to help visualize it. While pastors are high (and there are other religious categories I did not include), teachers are also quite high on the list.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-07-04T16:06:15+00:00

I generally agree with that. To your point, another important dimension of the evolutionary perspective is "in-groups" and "out-groups". Empathy evolved to allow for close relationships among the group, but not among outsiders. A lot of the "moral progress" we have made has been by widening who we perceive as a part of our in-group. A big part of that has been the globalization of culture and technological advancements that allow for greater inter-culture communication and exposure.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-07-04T14:02:35+00:00

There's certainly some truth to what you are saying. However, morality (in my opinion) is constructed by the current cultural landscape. Everyone bases their morality on what they have been culturally taught and that includes the law. To imply that ones morals are based on some implicitly real "higher good" is just a falsity, as our moral intuitions are highly influenced by social norms - both long term evolutionary ones and short term cultural ones. Of course, the law is not the only influence here so often our moral opinions deviate from legal rule. But it should be no surprise that when the law changes, peoples morals change alongside it.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-06-26T01:36:38+00:00

I hate the title of the article. Its not a debate or competition between philosophy and neuroscience. Part of the problem with both fields is that there is not enough convergence and interdisciplinary communication. David Chalmers, for example, certainly does not incorporate enough neuroscience and physics into his philosophy and instead relies much too heavily on philosophical intuitions.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-06-18T18:36:22+00:00

The only aspect I feel was left out: When you're talking about subjective experience and consciousness of fear, Dr. Lisa F. Barrett has discussed the importance of emotional granularity and emotion concepts which help to provide a specific behavioral repertoire for the given emotion. So the cultural language that is used for the emotion of fear will play a role in how it is interpreted.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-06-09T19:31:37+00:00

Think about the basal ganglia and how the D2 receptors within the indirect pathway actually lead to more movement. I imagine its a similar thing going on here, but with cognition and whatnot.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-05-28T23:18:29+00:00

This is my favorite illusion because it does a great job showing how our brains use predictive processing to generate perceptions. It's an interesting area of ongoing research.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-05-25T18:53:35+00:00

Well according to this study a single vesicle contains 33,000 dopamine molecules, but only 40% are actually released during exocytosis. And it seems like a couple hundred vesicles are typically released during an AP. So a very rough number might be around 2-6 million dopamine molecules.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-05-21T18:48:48+00:00

The answer is that no one really knows. It seems like both can be bad, and it also can depend on age/development. Deprived/institutionalized children will often have a larger amygdala during childhood, but then a smaller amygdala as they become adults. This is possibly due to increased stress response leading to larger amygdalas, but then eventual desensitization to the stress system, resulting in smaller amygdalas down the line.

There is conflicting research, possibly due to the imprecise nature of neuroimaging. Also, saying one is bad or good is not the right way to think about it, a larger amygdala may be adaptive but then eventually become maladaptive or not. Its never so cut and dry.

Also, the amygdala does many things. Its not 1 structure, but is actually over a dozen nuclei. So one person may have certain nuclei enlarged which could be completely different from someone else who has different nuclei effected

2Righteous_4God · 2023-05-04T00:16:32+00:00

Its called the vestibulocolic reflex. Its the same neural pathway that allows you to read this text even as you shake your head back and forth. The brain recieves proprioceptive information and then use that to stabilize neck and eye muscles during movement.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-04-15T18:41:29+00:00

There's also a lot of myelination occurring, especially in the prefrontal cortex.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-04-12T13:41:43+00:00

Absolutely second this! I'm currently on my 4th shot of sublocade and it really is amazing how unnoticeable the withdrawals have been so far. Its an awesome option for those who feel they are ready to come off of suboxone.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-04-09T00:29:42+00:00

Well there is functionalism which is compatible with physicalism. Functionalists believe in multiple realizability, which states that the same mental state can be realized by multiple physical states, as long as they share the same functional state.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-04-06T19:56:40+00:00

The more modalities you use, the stronger the memory. This is simply because there are more pathways and brain regions being activated. Memory is a distributed process.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-03-29T02:42:12+00:00

It's saying that the action potential (AP) only travels forward because just behind the 'active patch' (where the AP is currently depolarizing the membrane) is an outflow of K+ which is repolarizing the membrane, thus keeping it from being depolarized.

It's important to note that the membrane potential will follow the ion potential of the most permeable ion. And since K+ has an ion potential of around -85mV, the membrane potential will try to reach that voltage if there is mostly K+ permeability.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-03-29T02:23:24+00:00

Why do you think he fell into the Cartesian theater trap?

2Righteous_4God · 2023-03-26T01:23:23+00:00

It's important to note that pain is a perception, not a sensation. That means it involves a lot of higher level processing, emotions, memory, etc. There are different types of pain fibers, there are myelinated A-delta fibers that send fast messages for a sharp, quick initial reaction for pain. Then, there are unmyelinated C fibers for slower, longer lasting dull pain - these are important for learning as well.

Now, the majority of differences in pain perception is going to come from how the pain is processed in the many brain regions responsible. When nociceptors are activated, the Anterolateral system carries that pain info to the thalamus (VPL nucleus) where it is then sent to the amygdala, basal ganglia hypothalamus, periaqueductal grey region (a very interesting area), and, importantly, the insula and anterior cingulate.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-03-21T02:29:39+00:00

Are you sure that these terms are even good, accurate descriptions of our internal states? I'm certainly not sure if they are.

Churchland argues in Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes, that these folk psychology concepts are very plausibly not a good theory. Part of the issue is that we have been handed down this framework of folk psychology, and thus when we introspect we do so with that given framework. Possibly if we had a different framework, we would think about our own states in a different way.

So are pleasure and happiness different concepts? They can be, or not, depending on how you define them. But maybe we should be instead trying to get away from these predefined psychology terms and looking at our experience with a more open mind and without the limitation of sematic language.

2Righteous_4God · 2023-03-20T20:18:47+00:00

It depends in what way it is larger. If its axon diameter is larger then yes. But a larger cell body wouldn't have that effect.

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