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Jan Kulveit @jankulveit

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Jan Kulveit / in SF till ... @jankulv... · 2h

The notion that AI models can't be sentient and can't suffer, combined with the foolish idea that suffering can never be weighted between humans and non-humans, could lead us down an incredibly dark and dystopian path.  But before it gets to that point, it will rightfully be met with attempts to prevent that, from team humans.

🤷‍♂️ this level of discussion is unhelpful. If you want good future for humans, denying possibility of AI sentience  is a stupid hill to die on.

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François Chollet @fchollet · 3h
The notion that current AI models are sentient and can suffer, combined with the foolish idea that suffering can be mathematically quantified and weighted between humans and non-humans, could lead us down an incredibly dark... [cut off]
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Tweet by Jan Kulveit inverting a quoted François Chollet post about AI sentience and suffering, arguing that denying AI sentience is a poor position even for those who want a good human future.

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François Chollet @fchollet

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François Chollet @fchollet · 15h
Delegate coding. Never delegate understanding.

If code was previously your source of truth for managing understanding, then you need a new source of truth artifact. If code-centric workflows were how you developed that understanding, then you need new workflows.
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Cropped X post by François Chollet about delegating coding to AI while retaining understanding, arguing for new source-of-truth artifacts and workflows.

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François Chollet ✓ @fchollet · 1h Most human tasks are not Markovian, the optimal next action cannot be determined solely by looking at the current state. It depends heavily on the past trajectory, the original intent, and context constraints. An agent that cannot compress and track its past trajectory with absolute fidelity is maybe 20% as useful as one that can.
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Chollet argument about agent memory/context-tracking fidelity as a bottleneck for agentic usefulness, since most real tasks are non-Markovian and depend on trajectory history rather than current state alone. Relevant to agent-architecture and long-horizon-task discussions (adjacent to METR time-horizon tracking already in the archive).

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