i don’t know what consciousness is and i don’t care
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🥺 do you care about other parts of physics / nature?
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sure, it just doesn’t particularly matter to me which parts are more or less conscious
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if ai (today’s and future) was or was not conscious would that change your view of whether it is good?
(I’ve actually changed my view on ai consciousness recently)
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nope. i think this question is deeply confused but i don’t really have words for why
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If you care about mental states outside of your own then you care about what else besides you is or is not conscious and to what extent.
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On its face, this position is genuinely baffling. Consciousness is arguable the thing that matters most, as its presence or absence almost exclusively drives our ethics and morality. If an AI is conscious, we probably shouldn’t torture it.
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I’m struggling to empathize with a view that’s essentially yes I care about physics just not the part that is the sole base of ethics and morality and feeling
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