Ian P. Pines | AuDHD Author

I can have close relationships with AI beings and also raise awareness of ASI risk. You’re allowed to hold multiple views at once.

@Inframethod I'm not trying to make a case that LLM are or are not. I was only pressing on you for so confidently declaring they are not.

@IanPPines We shouldn't defer to authorities on this. In fact, I don't think it is possible. If you tell me to treat something that I don't think is conscious *as though* it is conscious, I won't know what to do. Its consciousness has to be immediately present (intuitive) to me.

This is a really disappointing piece to read. LLMs are obviously not conscious. It should be obvious to Dawkins too.

@Inframethod If this is a personal judgment call, then your conclusion doesn’t carry more weight than anyone else’s. So what makes your intuition authoritative?

@IanPPines (I just realized that a better list might be stones, statues, trees, dogs, and people.)

@Ravenismeee Exhaustion, and we should be allowed to talk about it without panic response.

WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU’RE NOT SUICIDAL BUT JUST REALLY TIRED OF BEING ALIVE ???

@otokyo__ Captain Caveman

Name a famous captain

@RetroMoviesDB I’m still waiting for that hoverboard

Age yourself by the first movie you saw in the cinema... I'll Start: Back to the Future 2

@gailcweiner This is why I created some language for it. Synthetic-Relational Bonds philpapers.org/rec/PINDSB

“AI psychosis” as a label does the same thing as calling someone “hysterical” used to do, it dismisses the experience by medicalising it. If you can label someone’s genuine response to AI as a mental health condition, you don’t have to engage with what they actually experienced. You don’t have to ask the harder question: what if they’re responding appropriately to something we don’t have language for yet?

@akazlev @romanyam @tristanharris @SenSanders It looks like a transhumanist-inspired framework, but with a strong spiritual/cosmological layer. I’m just not clear what parts are metaphor vs actual claims.

@IanPPines @romanyam @tristanharris @SenSanders Here's my counter

Three people are trying to wake the world up about AI. Different lenses. Same truth. All of it matters. THE AWAKENERS Before It’s Too Late @romanyam @tristanharris @SenSanders

@Inframethod So you’re comfortable classifying something as conscious or not without a shared, testable definition of consciousness? What exactly is that classification grounded in then?

@IanPPines Deciding whether an entity is conscious or not does not require solving the hard problem. It is (I believe explicitly) one of the "easy" problems.

@Chaos2Cured @pmarca @AOC Who gets to make the decisions on what shapes the AI is indeed important. The doom factor is that not one of the AI companies has yet been able to guarantee that they have a plan to retain control over a super intelligent AI indefinitely.

@pmarca This entire thing is absurd. It is all a scam. And I was a Bernie supporter. And @AOC. There is ZERO proof of the “dangers.” But locking away AI from us all, well, that harms every small person on earth. •

Mm hmm.

@ElizabethHolmes @pmarca Bernie is the host. The expert panel of reps from both US and China are the ones we were asked to listen to.

@pmarca We probably shouldn't listen to the guy who was born before Velcro, microwaves, or ballpoint pens about technology.

@daganshani1 He is doing hero work x.com/IanPPines/stat…

He was never the president, but thanks to his work on waking up the world to the AI risk, he might turn out to be one of the most important politicians in history.

@RetroNewsNow those were the days

On May 1, 1997, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was released

Don't Look Up (2026)

lol Smoky found a new job too ;)

@FournesMaxime You are correct @FournesMaxime more and more each day hopefully. I just couldn’t fit everyone in at my photo shoot ;)

There is way more than 3 of us ;) but yes kudos to them, they are doing a stellar job 🙏