James Diacoumis

Karma: 210

Lead Data Scientist at Quantium.

PhD in Theoretical Physics / Cosmology.

Views my own not my employers.

The crux on consciousness

James Diacoumis27 Nov 2025 13:20 UTC

10 points

12 comments12 min readLW link

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The “cool idea” bias

James Diacoumis8 Oct 2025 12:29 UTC

18 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

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Beyond the Zombie Argument

James Diacoumis1 Oct 2025 13:16 UTC

7 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

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The Chinese Room re-visited: How LLM’s have real (but different) understanding of words

James Diacoumis24 Sep 2025 14:06 UTC

6 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

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The Other Alignment Problems: How epistemic, moral and aesthetic norms get entangled

James Diacoumis28 Aug 2025 11:26 UTC

3 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Moral gauge theory: A speculative suggestion for AI alignment

James Diacoumis23 Feb 2025 11:42 UTC

6 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

James Diacoumis’s Shortform

James Diacoumis14 Feb 2025 1:46 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Functionalist Case for Machine Consciousness: Evidence from Large Language Models

James Diacoumis22 Jan 2025 17:43 UTC

16 points

24 comments9 min readLW link