"intelligence is the best thing in the world" (which is why we're all going to die) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETSf9eDZ-sQ …
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Replying to @Outsideness
Consciousness being separable from intelligence is a weird and farcical idea. Consciousness = metacognition = capacity to self-improve.
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Replying to @smudgie_buggler
Unless people are hubristic enough to think they're going to build an AI from scratch, self-improvement is implicit in the idea.
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Replying to @Outsideness
That's exactly it. Recursive self-improvement conceptually entails all the meaningful elements of "consciousness".
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Replying to @smudgie_buggler
With corollary that human "consciousness" is so rudimentary it barely merits the term.
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Replying to @Outsideness @smudgie_buggler
"When you fry them alive they emit a kind of squealing sound." "Okay then, I guess they're conscious in some weak sense."
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