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It says more than half, so it’s a sure thing.

One’s got a four in it and the other’s got a three, the bigger one is obvious.

Utilitarianism is a tricky philosophy, it’s got a lot of sharp edges like this.

Well, this isn’t limited to indoor spaces, then.

And yet I still can’t buy a mosquito laser. Very frustrating.

I literally never give my phone to anyone else physically. And if I had it set up with a self-destruct button like this I would be even more fastidious about making sure it’s backed up than I already am.

For example, would it be considered destruction of evidence if a defendant had written it on the back of the phone and the officers assumed it was the correct PIN? That’s just a hypothetical

What a good idea! Hypothetically. :)

Why not just assemble all of Thomas’ spare parts immediately, without dismantling the original? Same end result, should be indistinguishable.

Exactly, which is why it’s IMO a bit presumptuous to say with confidence that humans are conscious while LLMs are categorically not conscious. We don’t even really know what that means.

I don’t personally think LLMs are conscious, at least not yet or not to the same degree that humans are. But that’s purely based on vibe, it’s not something I can know. We need to figure out what consciousness really is and how to measure it before we can say we know this with any certainty.

Sure, you say you’re conscious. I can get an LLM to say it’s conscious too. This is why we need some method for measuring it. Otherwise how can I tell which of you is telling the truth?

I’m still awaiting a widely accepted method of actually measuring “consciousness.” It’s a conveniently nebulous property.

And simply defining it as something computers can’t do is even more convenient.

As LLMs have developed and have been able to cram more and more “thoughtlike” behaviour into smaller RAM and less computation, I’ve steadily become less impressed with human brains. It seems like the bits we think most highly of are probably just minor add-ons to stuff that’s otherwise dedicated to running our big complicated bodies in a big complicated physics environment. If all you want to have is the part that philosophizes and solves abstract problems and whatnot then you may not actually need all that much horsepower.

I’m thinking consciousness might also turn out to be something pretty simple. Assuming consciousness is even a particular “thing” in the first place and not just a side effect of being able to predict how other people will behave.

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The best current treatments for autism depend on knowing as early as possible that a child needs specialized help to have the best outcomes. If there was a tool that decisively identified autistic kids and you destroyed it I would rank you as a particularly heinous monster.

Reminds me of this Oglaf strip (NSFW, of course - it’s Oglaf).

Could you be a sorcerer if you’re related to the DM?

The cleric version of a lich is a Mummy Lord.

And you think this will happen simultaneously, to everyone on the planet everywhere at the same time? Including all the remote uncontacted tribes, isolated island nations, the herders and farmers in various hinterlands, and so forth? And once everyone gets “deathlusted” they’ll all just act like crazed zombies, murdering and murdering until there’s just two left and then they strangle each other in the wreckage?

You’re demonstrating another example of interpreting “the end of my personally familiar comfortable lifestyle” as “the end of the whole entire world, full stop, it’s all over and gone.”

I’m sure there were people during the Bronze Age Collapse who thought it was the end of the world. And for their definition of “the world”, I guess it was. But humanity is so much larger than your little personally-familiar corner of the world.

Sorry to be blunt, but the less we know objectivity, the greater the % of the population who’ll be destroyed by our ignoring/denying ( including mine: this is global viability, not ideological )

Bear in mind: extinction requires that the % needs to be exactly 100%. Exactly. 99% won’t do it.

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