every public intellectual wants to post a stance on AI consciousness but nobody wants to actually expose their stack of philosophical foundations for the stance
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almost no one is equipped to deal with inconvenient questions at the bottom of their stacks, not anti or pro
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substance 4 · opinion · rank 60 · Public intellectuals state AI consciousness stances without exposing or examining their underlying philosophical foundations
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my favorite part is when the argument bottoms out at "machines will never think like humans because humans have this special ineffable thing that i cannot define, measure, or explain, but trust me, silicon can’t have it."