J-Space Paper and the Consciousness Debate
dmvaldman · x · 2026-07-14
The poster announced a talk in San Francisco next Monday evening about the J-space paper, focusing on its technical mechanisms, and welcomed DMs for attendance.
A reply added context from the paper: the authors argue that a specific ablation reduces "experiential and sensory" expressions in text, making it more mechanical and detached, with examples provided. This discussion links the paper to the question of "consciousness accessibility."
Related event: Anthropic Reveals Claude's Hidden Reasoning Space: J-space(16 posts)→
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