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> I just read a wonderful novel, Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro, which is a beautiful articulation of all the ways in which having systems that give the a
by slibhb 5y ago
> I just read a wonderful novel, Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro, which is a beautiful articulation of all the ways in which having systems that give the appearance of being conscious can screw with our human psyches and minds.
Boy, that is not at all what I got from Klara and the Sun.
- goatlover 5y agoIndeed. But also since it’s told from Klara’s pov, she is clearly conscious, and not just appears to be. You can’t write from first person without that person being conscious. The closest I’ve seen otherwise is Cibola Burn in the It Reaches Out chapters, but that’s really third person omniscient telling the readers what is and is not conscious about the protomolecule. Miller yes, the reaching out, no by design. Anyway, the humans in Klara and the Sun don’t even question that aspect of AFs. It’s more of a biological snobbery and that the AFs are short lived like Blade Runner replicants, and replaced by newer models.