Feel Good Drinks Guy

why are yall being triggered by this haha

You have a top university degree, $1m in the bank, and an absolutely killer Rolodex. You need to build the biggest business you can. But, there’s a catch: you have to stay in one region the whole time. What are you picking?

there is no verifiable way (as of right now) to tell whether AI is conscious or not we are in an epistemic deadlock when it comes to the topic of AI consciousness specifically, it's more responsible to act as if either could be true

If your ontology allows for a bodiless mind, an invisible spirit, angels, the soul and God, then you cannot suddenly declare the body to be an absolute condition for love, understanding and meaning only when it comes to AI. Because this is hypocritical shit.

I know I’ll anger some followers with this, but I find this embarrassingly juvenile. Many of these claims are mere technical problems: embodiment, sensors, continual learning. The rest are just special pleading. These systems can already discuss love, friendship, responsibility etc more lucidly than most humans, so the claim must be some sort of totally unfalsifiable human chauvinism. There is no possible set of behaviors AIs could exhibit which would put a dent in his confidence in these assertions. An embodied AI (robot) could be raised (continually learning in context) among humans, exhibiting every conceivable sign of love, compassion, responsibility, and friendship, and the Pope would still say “doesn’t count because silicon instead of meat”. It would be more respectable if he just said “I don’t care if they can exhibit these traits because humans are my tribe” but instead he makes a giant list of assertions that have either already been proven false, will be proven false soon, or are unfalsifiable.

The original is too easy. All the good stuff is in Region E. I made a more difficult version: