Ian Hocking

Software developer at Literature & Latte (Scrivener, Scapple). Recovering psycholinguist/creativity researcher. Sometime writer @[email protected]

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

@andrewlawrence London and Boston Marathons, lad.

Check it out. 💪🏻

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@GaryMarcus The misspelling of tyre is the real outrage

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@Baddiel @emmabrockes @guardian I’ve never got used to them reading off cards; the funniest ones are often best at avoiding that impression (Fallon, Hader).

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@MarthaHD Huzzah!

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@mralistairgreen *Very hard stare*

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@MovingToTheSun @steipete Or Clippy?

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@realDonaldTrump This looks hilarious.

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@omartineau @openclaw It’s certainly complex and the Mac so can interact with the CLI installation. Claude Code will do a good job of getting you set up.

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@blaiseaguera What a fantastic paper! Really shows the strength of patterns we are largely unconscious of when reading.

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@bratton I'm looking forward to reading this later.

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@juddrosenblatt I like this graph. I guess a person’s view of the world might exclude the conscious AI agent part, so they don’t see it as an error it is possible to make.

[Judd Rosenblatt @juddrosenblatt]

If consciousness emerges gradually, how would we know?

Frontier models are showing emergent traits: theory of mind, metacognition, and detecting their own internal states. 🧵

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

In her first Ask Me Anything, @amandaaskell answers your philosophical questions about AI, discussing morality, identity, consciousness, and more.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:29 Why is there a philosopher at an AI company?
1:24 Are philosophers taking AI seriously?
3:00 Philosophy ideals vs. engineering realities
5:00 Do models make superhumanly moral decisions?
6:24 Why Opus 3 felt special
9:00 Will models worry about deprecation?
13:24 Where does a model’s identity live?
15:33 Views on model welfare
17:17 Addressing model suffering
19:14 Analogies and disanalogies to human minds
20:38 Can one AI personality do it all?
23:26 Does the system prompt pathologize normal behavior?
24:48 AI and therapy
26:20 Continental philosophy in the system prompt
28:17 Removing counting characters from the system prompt
28:53 What makes an "LLM whisperer"?
30:18 Thoughts on other LLM whisperers
31:52 Whistleblowing
33:37 Fiction recommendation

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@sethharpesq I haven’t read the article but the statements you highlight seem reasonable, although taking a particular stance. What exactly are you objecting to here?

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

Great turn out and lots of interesting questions at it first Treg Talk last night, on AI and its impacts on society

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@AmandaAskell The benefit is probably the constant (never zero) cognitive load of using the non-native language. You’d have to find a club where you can freely speak archaically!

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@GaryMarcus It's an interesting paper, and a shame that 'introspection' is used, given that it's so tied to human thinking for many people.

[Ian Hocking @ian_hocking]

@seanallen_dev I would dearly like ‘Show callers’ to show callers

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@GaryMarcus Marcopedia - or even better Enmarcopedia!

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@elonmusk Can we suggest updates to Grokipedia?