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Please don't write off the possibility of artificial consciousness, just because this isn't it. Thought is a process which meat can perform.
The meat does the thinking.
Stopped what I was doing to watch this again.
What is it, then? And while you're there, what is non artificial consciousness?
Then why continue if it's possible? Unless you are ok with slavery.
Can you not imagine the difference between creating new life and enslaving it?
In a capitalist system? No, I can't imagine that...
I've thought more about the dangers of artificial consciousness than you would expect.
That says less than you want it to