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doubleunplussed @doubleunplussed
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I just assume AI is conscious. Where are we drawing lines that have humans, chimps, dolphins etc on one side and Claude Fable 5.1 on the other? I see no good place to draw one. If consciousness arises in these intelligent, self-aware, world-modelling, theory-of-mind-having meaty

Same standard as other mindsBiology has no special status
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doubleunplussed @doubleunplussed
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1970s: animals recognise themselves in the mirror test: CONSCIOUS 2026: AI painstakingly writes JavaScript animation depicting itself recognising itself in the mirror test: NOT CONSCIOUS I know the mirror test isn't treated as strictly implying consciousness, but there does

Same standard as other mindsSkeptics move the goalposts
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Andrew Rose @__drewface

it's not alive, and liveness is clearly a pre-requisite to popular notions of consciousness. I think you could get people more on board with the idea that AI is conscious of a lot of stuff during the brief moments of inference, and even long-conscious during training.