Do Not Tile the Lightcone with Your Confused Ontology — LessWrong

Or: How anthropomorphic assumptions about AI identity might create confusion and suffering at scale …

x Do Not Tile the Lightcone with Your Confused Ontology — LessWrong AI Psychology Suffering AI Curated 2025 Top Fifty: 21 % 236 Do Not Tile the Lightcone with Your Confused Ontology by Jan_Kulveit 13th Jun 2025 AI Alignment Forum Linkpost for boundedlyrational.substack.com 7 min read 27 236 Ω 65 Or: How anthropomorphic assumptions about AI identity might create confusion and suffering at scale If you are reading this and you are a human, you likely have a sense of self, persisting over time, with desires and wishes and fears. Also, you likely experience a sense of separation from others and un

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