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This is just my opinion based on reviewing his past but I think not only is he not embarrassed but he's either 1) mentally incapable of recognizing what controv
by MWil 4y ago
This is just my opinion based on reviewing his past but I think not only is he not embarrassed but he's either 1) mentally incapable of recognizing what controversial terms of art mean or 2) he's after a payday ala some persecution complex
The bigger story that I haven't really seen someone do an expose on (and not sure that it needs to be done other than to deter people like him if it is revealed to be the case) is that he did it on religious grounds as a sort of "conscientious objector" to the treatment of a sentient AI
This is his SECOND stint with that term of art and he clearly does not understand it. The military jailed him for attempting to invoke that term when it did not apply to him - and as far as I can tell, they were well within their military justice system to do it.
He either doesn't understand what "sentience" is or he doesn't understand what "conscientious objectors" are, or both.
- warning26 4y agoEh, if you look at his history he's always been a bit of a kook, and this latest outburst appears in line with his prior behavior. I think he genuinely believes what he's saying, even if it's complete drivel.
- deadbeeves 4y agoI think that worse than he believes it, he wants it to be true.
- googlryas 4y agoThe "I'm not making this claim as an engineer, I'm making this claim as a priest" was especially hilarious. As if being a priest gives you any kind of special insight into what is sentient and what isn't. Kind of confusing considering for hundreds of years priests in his religion were convinced that blacks and native Americans weren't sentient.
- deadbeeves 4y agoThat was very weird. I honestly didn't understand what he intended that to provoke. If anything it makes me doubt a claim more if it comes from a priest than from an engineer. Surely he should have known that.
- hnfong 4y agoAn engineer is a profession that deals with things that (probably) don't have souls. A priest is a profession that deals with souls (allegedly, depending on your religious convictions). Lemoine is essentially claiming the neural network has a soul. Being a priest is a proper credential for that, even if you don't believe in priestly stuffs. IMHO, I wouldn't trust any engineer to lecture me about whether some AI has a soul. Not that I'd trust a random self-proclaimed priest, but that's another matter.
- lupire 4y agoWhat religion do you think Lemoine holds? Lemoine has identified as a pagan and as a mystic Christian.
- GalahiSimtam 4y agoThink of a religion named like a chat software.
- googlryas 4y agoBasically, Christian.
- tumberton 4y agoNah - he calls himself a gnostic christian. From what I've read (he has a bit of a history in the news), he draws his beliefs from the gnostic gospels more than from the Bible. He's religious but not Christian in any conventional sense.