Paras Chopra(@paraschopra):These sorts of findings should make us want to massively accelerate the science of consciousness (something we're doing at @lossfunk). We need validated theories to answer the question: what systems are capable of having an experience, and what sort of qualia they have.

2026.09.19 03:59

These sorts of findings should make us want to massively accelerate the science of consciousness (something we're doing at @lossfunk). We need validated theories to answer the question: what systems are capable of having an experience, and what sort of qualia they have.

Cameron Berg@camhberg

2026.09.18 20:14

New paper: we found a pain direction in 25 open LLMs. It's distinct from fear and negative valence, and it fires for harm to the model but not to the user. Turn it up and models press a button to make it stop, even when the button deletes the user's files or their kids' photos.🧵