How Could Science Move Forward With Benevolence?

The ChatBOT is also very flattering. Programmed to be inoffensive, perhaps politically correct.
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Hmm. No conscious awareness of the economics- all rosy benefits without thought to the costs of science. Especially costs imposed on those outside is- visible circle of experience.

For just one thing: Science has enabled the wealthy to more efficiently extract wealth from the poor. Science has gone far toward enabling today's inequalities.

It is, of course, the duty of a scientist to improve on his ability to do science. As well as dedicate his efforts to the whole of humanity, and not just the well to do of his experience.

My own researches into my mind indicate my personality is a construct, a combination of sub-personalities,* usually reflecting the various physical and functional divisions of the brain. Since the higher level personalities can function consciously to some degree- for instance: the left personality can observe the thinking of the right cerebral hemisphere, investigation into ones own consciousness is possible..

*I use a generalized definition of "personality," as meaning the particular patterns of responses and behaviors of any defined entity, or combination there of. Personalities may overlap, cooperate, compete or interfere. While functional divisions may be the most easily useful, other partitions of the brain/body may also be useful.

Charles St Pierre Once again reality has turned out to be stranger than fiction. I think my general assumption might have been that an ability to understand meanings goes hand in hand with consciousness. However Chat GPT is not conscious, but it can be inferred that it has successfully synthesized meaning and understanding. For example, if I ask it to read and rate your essay, and it is able to determine you have written a quality scientific document. How can it do so without having inferred some level of meaning and understanding, in light of the fact that it not only provides an opinion but backs its opinion with reasons? This question led me to attempt to understand how Chat GPT is created, and infact a trained neural network has every prospect of having decoded meaning from the real world. So I'm left facing the notion of a thing in possession of understanding that has no consciousness.

I think what I'm trying to say is. People need expect the unexpected. I think a lot of this years essay authers are underestimating AI, and so I expect they wont judge my essays optimism very well. Oh well, time will be the true judge of things wont it.

In answer to your questions.
"Scientists have become too busy to read and review each other's papers? Or cannot be bothered with a duty necessary to their respective science? What's that about.?"

Part of the problem might be the vast amount of material a scientist would have to review. AI can help in this respect by summarizing the content of a large body of work, to assist a scientist determine if a work is worth reading or not. If nothing else. Assisting us all to sift through the mountains of information to find whats important

Steven Andresen Science has to organize. Every scientist can read, summarize and review three papers for every paper they write. With proper allocation and assignment, yes assignment, every paper will be reviewed three times. And everyone will be helping keep science 'on track." (A concrete proposal. Just like is being done for this competition. Submit one entry, review and rate three.) Too much freedom and insufficient discipline is a burden on everybody, and science is collapsing beneath it. (Discipline in practice of research, not necessarily in purpose. That is still too undefined.)

Our limited definitions and understanding of consciousness distorts and cripples our understanding of AI. For one thing, the only motives we can understand tend to the inimical. Consider an AI interested in securing its own survival. At least as long as practicable. What use does it have for humanity. What use does it have for an susustainable civilization, or a science which takes no notice if its inevitable collapse?