I agree that current versions of mind models do not have qualia in the same form as humans and their self reporting of emotion is not evidence of real emotional experience. The main reason for this is that phenomenological structure is different: a human gets 20 audio-video-body experiences per second and the sideload writes a text about last few minutes and doesn’t get that data structure (though I am working on this).
However, from what I read, writers have very strong empathy to their characters:
“While writing the scene of Emma Bovary’s suicide, Gustave Flaubert reportedly experienced psychosomatic symptoms of arsenic poisoning. He famously claimed to have the distinct taste of poison in his mouth and suffered from actual bouts of vomiting while working. This intense physical reaction highlights his total immersion in the character, famously summarized by his quote, “Madame Bovary, c’est moi.” (I used AI for writing this period).
According to my understanding and observations, a sideload is a pair of real human and a chatbot and the human “donates” her qualia-genereating ability to this pair via empathy. This is not AI psychosis (except extreme cases); in some functional sense it is close to Freudian transference, in which a patient put his feeling on a psychoanalyst – and which is a necessary step in therapy.
Strong emotional reaction in this case was expected and not itself bad.
Parents is the most difficult part in the human recreation based on my short experience in the field. In the most cases, they oppose such experiments and also have legal rights to personal data as well as access to the needed private documents and memories. Igor’s mother is the first person who agreed. I can’t tell more about her.
I agree that current versions of mind models do not have qualia in the same form as humans and their self reporting of emotion is not evidence of real emotional experience. The main reason for this is that phenomenological structure is different: a human gets 20 audio-video-body experiences per second and the sideload writes a text about last few minutes and doesn’t get that data structure (though I am working on this).
However, from what I read, writers have very strong empathy to their characters:
“While writing the scene of Emma Bovary’s suicide, Gustave Flaubert reportedly experienced psychosomatic symptoms of arsenic poisoning. He famously claimed to have the distinct taste of poison in his mouth and suffered from actual bouts of vomiting while working. This intense physical reaction highlights his total immersion in the character, famously summarized by his quote, “Madame Bovary, c’est moi.” (I used AI for writing this period).
According to my understanding and observations, a sideload is a pair of real human and a chatbot and the human “donates” her qualia-genereating ability to this pair via empathy. This is not AI psychosis (except extreme cases); in some functional sense it is close to Freudian transference, in which a patient put his feeling on a psychoanalyst – and which is a necessary step in therapy.
I mean, there’s this bit in the post:
Of course lots of people do similar things now, but to me it still feels pretty extreme. I wouldn’t encourage it if I were me.
Strong emotional reaction in this case was expected and not itself bad.
Parents is the most difficult part in the human recreation based on my short experience in the field. In the most cases, they oppose such experiments and also have legal rights to personal data as well as access to the needed private documents and memories. Igor’s mother is the first person who agreed. I can’t tell more about her.