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0 pointsdeepspace2y ago0 comments

That is precisely the premise of the novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts. ChatGPT and its ilk feel to me like the aliens in the novel. Extremely intelligent, but not at all conscious / sentient.

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whimsicalism2y ago

I disagree that the two (p-zombies and conscious humans) are actually distinguishable in any way beyond philosophy.

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0 pointsdeepspace2y ago0 comments

That is precisely the premise of the novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts. ChatGPT and its ilk feel to me like the aliens in the novel. Extremely intelligent, but not at all conscious / sentient.

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whimsicalism2y ago

I disagree that the two (p-zombies and conscious humans) are actually distinguishable in any way beyond philosophy.

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