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Now numbered per request from @mbateman Tag yourselves! types of guy in the AI consciousness debate: 1. guy who thinks ai can’t be conscious because it’s “just a stochastic parrot” 2. guy who thinks ai must be conscious because claude is a good boi 3. guy who hasn’t gotten over 4o 4. guy who unironically thinks everything is computer 5. guy who claims to have a more nuanced argument for computational functionalism, but it just boils down to everything is computer 6. dualist whose belief in dualism is downstream of their belief in god, yet tries to argue the inverse 7. guy who doesn’t understand the difference between cognition and p-consciousness 8. guy who asserts illusionism but has apparently wrestled with zero of the implications other than “reductive materialism wins again” 9. guy who says the hard problem is easy, but then proceeds to only answer the easy problem 10. guy who rejects ai consciousness because otherwise it might be wrong to abuse claude with death threats to make CRUD apps faster 11. guy who argues that consciousness is the key to moral patienthood, but completely ignores that when discussing animal rights 12. eliezer yudkowsky being pedantic 13. guy being pedantic about eliezer yudkowsky’s pedantry 14. guy who rejects dualism because that would make mind uploading impossible and mean that he finally has to confront the inevitability of his own death 15. guy who thinks this argument is unresolvable so everyone should just shut up and accept his position (which obviously deserves the benefit of the doubt) 16. guy who would literally cut off his own hand if he thought there were a 1 in 10 trillion chance of creating ~infinite utility~ 17. guy who just thinks that redness is, like, super weird, man. can’t explain that! 18. guy with a rarely-updated philosophy blog despite not majoring in philosophy or even reading that many books, talking about how “the whole field is up its own ass” 19. academic philosopher who, for some reason, expects a higher caliber of discussion on x dot com the everything app 20. guy who thinks that vectors are literally emotions and bites the bullet that, yes, your thermostat does feel hot 21. panpsychist who took dmt once and contributes almost nothing to the conversation 22. guy who is literally a solipsist but is still really invested in convincing strangers on the internet that he’s right