[jrosenblatt]

Quite a lot of smart people are taking it seriously

We are at AE Studio with research like https://ae.studio/research/self-referential and https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10188

Anthropic is doing interesting work here, Eleos exists (https://eleosai.org/), and https://digitalminds.substack.com/p/digital-minds-in-2025-a-... is a great review of other compelling work

The field is just beginning but it is worth taking a serious scientific approach to this work

[bigyabai]

> The field is just beginning

Computational linguists have been saying this since the 1990s. There is still no real theory collating language with consciousness.

[__patchbit__]

Towards Consciousness Engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI6Hu-DhQwE

[bigyabai]

If you're watching this unironically, you need to go back and read your Kant/Hegel. These people would have been run out of conferences on a rail.

[andy99]

Why do you consider what is being done in the references above to be a scientific approach?