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It's genuinely possible English is his second language? It's pretty subtle, but there's a big difference between "an entire" versus "the entire."

And here is a selection of quotes: -Sam Altman “whole classes of jobs going away” -Mustafa Suleyman "So white-collar work, where you're sitting down at a computer, either being a l…

The question is flawed. People who do not pay for ChatGPT often have money and prefer not to pay for for a subscription for several reasons including, but not exclusively: 1) They …

Plot twist, the AI in the article was Amazon Mechanical Turk with a highly sensitive man falling in love.

Erm, I have embarked on this, and I have absolutely not arrived back to panpsychism. My conclusion is that panpsychism is god of the gaps for consciousness right now.

I genuinely think emergent property of sophisticated brain is much closer to the correct explanation than panpsychism in terms of usefulness, predictive power, etc., and likelihood…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain But also, see the rest of my comment. The onus is not on me to arrive with a better explanation just because there's a bad explanation on …

While I don't like the radio analogy, I think we largely agree then. If interested, the reason I don't like the radio analogy is that it presupposes that the configuration of the b…

Emergent property of a sophisticated brain (with it's own weaknesses). But even if I didn't have a more compelling explanation, that doesn't mean I can't be highly critical of, or …

> Okay well that's silly and I've not met even one panpsychist who believes this "comparable to human conscious experience" portion You, yourself, and Philip Goff and others talk a…

I don't think we _all_ point at cat's behavior and conclude consciousness. I think its the behaviors you describe plus we see how anatomically similar to humans they are. As someon…

I strongly agree with ergonaught, and disagree with what you're saying. This tiny interaction I think is the the entire problem with how panpsychists talk about this. Some panpsych…

I very much agree with this. It seems to me panpsychists make a redefinition of consciousness as some entirely alien, unrecognizable thing. So, if an atom is conscious, but has no …

"The emerging properties model is not unfeasible, we could test it" One thing you can do is disrupt the smaller individual components that make up the emergent property, and see if…

My strong personal assessment of this is that panpsychists (in general, if you can pin one down) are not talking about consciousness in a colloquial sense - but I think this is a m…

I entirely agree with this, and I likewise think it's quite damning. But panpsychists don't see it this way. This is "the combination problem" and I predict they will never be able…

This is compelling and I think many elements of the spirit of this are true. The only thing I would add is that it will be interesting to see if professional, medium/high budget, p…

I think about it often. toaster fucker problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667362

And maybe they prefer developing in Swift and/or prefer Xcode?

Yes. And also during the Super Bowl festivities in 2016. It oddly wasn't as sensational back then, but made some news.

I think it's pretty fair to make this clarification and I don't fault a company for wanting to squash misinformation about their product. I found it to be a useful comment because …

That sounds oddly terrifying. Like gray goo devouring the world.

The claim is that some day innovations, and checks, and some other technologies will fix this and do all of this automatically, somehow. That's why it's still early days.