and the awkward thing is i'm not entirely confident you can't simulate consciousness in silicon?
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Kevin Hern
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Yes76%
No21%
Present0%
Not Voting3%
Party align97%
Cross-party1%
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Kevin Hern
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one fun corollary about machine sentience is that if it is true that you can simulate consciousness in silicon it follows that you can simulate consciousness in a sufficiently large stack of paper
should you care more about the suffering of 10^100 instances of GPT-5 Pro or one shrimp
main issue with it is it's called X now
x.com/ESYudkowsky/... tweet's held up huh
Like, there are exact cognates of this problem in human language. If I tokenise “how many Ls in ‘Lyla’” into katakana, it’s basically impossible to answer
Thanks David
But it doesn’t! It’s very very specifically a problem with _tokenisers_, in a way that is true of almost no other general problem with LLMs/transformers
I’m nitpicking: the general point (reasoning models are going to be the main product here and that’s bad for the economics) is fine. But I think there’s a desire to generalise a _very_ specific problem in ways that tortures it
Definitely important! I’m not sure that the strawberry problem suggests it makes that confusion (honestly, I’m pretty sure it does not generalise in that direction at all)
I don’t understand, sorry. When is counting the Rs in strawberry while vibe coding?
Yes? So you use code to solve them not an LLM
Ehhh idk, if you give it a specific type of question that is structured specifically to be hard for a tokeniser it can’t answer it efficiently but why are you turning to a tokeniser to solve that question
I don’t think this party trick has any real impact on the estimates for cost per usable token
I do this on BA every time and it works 75-80% of the time
Used to be you had to travel to Berlin for easy access to cool industrial loads
You have two children
It’s the equivalent flex to a live action kids show just randomly having a massive crowd scene periodically
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582 total votes
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| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | H. Res. 1175 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H. Res. 1156 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H.R. 1689 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H. Res. 965 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H.R. 6398 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H.R. 6398 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-16 | H.R. 6409 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-16 | H.R. 6409 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-16 | H. Con. Res. 40 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-04-15 | H. Res. 965 (119th) | Motion to Discharge | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-15 | H. Res. 1174 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-15 | H. Res. 1174 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-14 | H.R. 7613 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-04-14 | H.R. 1011 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-28 | H. Res. 1142 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-28 | H. Res. 1142 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-28 | — | Motion to Adjourn | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-27 | H.R. 7084 (119th) | Final passage | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2026-03-26 | H.R. 8029 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-26 | H.R. 8029 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-03-26 | H. Res. 1128 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-25 | H.R. 5103 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-25 | H.R. 5103 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-03-25 | H. Res. 1131 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-25 | H. Res. 1131 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-24 | H.R. 6422 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2026-03-19 | H.R. 4638 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-18 | H.J. Res. 139 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-03-18 | H.R. 1958 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-18 | H.R. 556 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-18 | H.R. 556 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-03-17 | H. Res. 1115 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-17 | H. Res. 1115 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-17 | S. 3971 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NO | YES | ✕ | Passed |
| 2026-03-17 | H.R. 4294 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-05 | H.R. 7744 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-05 | H.R. 7744 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-03-05 | H. Con. Res. 38 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-03-05 | H. Res. 1099 (119th) | Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2026-03-04 | H. Res. 1100 (119th) | Motion to Refer | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-04 | H.R. 6472 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-04 | S. 723 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-04 | H. Res. 1095 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-03-04 | H. Res. 1095 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-02-25 | H.R. 4758 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-02-25 | H.R. 4758 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-02-24 | H.R. 4626 (119th) | Final passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-02-24 | H.R. 4626 (119th) | Send back to committee | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2026-02-24 | H. Res. 1075 (119th) | Approve resolution | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2026-02-24 | H. Res. 1075 (119th) | End debate now | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.