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> Carbon atoms being conscious seems pretty alien to what is known, too. Not if you're human, who typically don't define themselves as conscious carbon atoms u
by nozzlegear 2mo ago
> Carbon atoms being conscious seems pretty alien to what is known, too.
Not if you're human, who typically don't define themselves as conscious carbon atoms unless they're being deeply pedantic.
- cwillu 2mo agoSuch pedantry is called for when the debate includes appeals to intuition about how silicon processing floating point numbers cannot possibly be conscious.
- mitxela 2mo agoIt's the same level of pedantry as calling an LLM "floating point operations" though
- jatora 2mo agoexactly. such over-reduction is just intellectually dishonest and generally a sign of some coping imo.
- nozzlegear 2mo agoIMO using sophistry to reduce yourself to "conscious carbon atoms" just so you can equivocate on whether your software is maybe conscious too is the cope.