Hey thanks for sharing this! One suggestion I have that fits into project leadership/strategy: Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke | Goodreads. I’ve found this helpful as a guide for making decisions under uncertainty, which the list doesn’t cover directly.
Rikhil Jhaveri
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Thanks this is a really interesting argument! My worry is that even granting illusionism and granting that the functional pressures have made an illusion of subjective experience very useful for human beings, I think a very strong assumption is needed to carry across the implication that AIs with a very different architecture will also need to develop consciousness with an illusion of subjective experience in order to act agentically. Particularly the assumption that ‘creating an internal model is the most efficient way of achieving their objectives’ I think is probably too strong: we have a rich imaginative grasp of how biological agents work and essentially none of how a system like this could work differently. Therefore, illusions about subjective experience may not be the most efficient solution but rather the only solution we can conceive of.