> For what it's worth, I think you're wildly wrong a) that the Chinese room experiment has anything profound to say about conscious experience, and b) that most

> For what it's worth, I think you're wildly wrong a) that the Chinese room experiment has anything profound to say about conscious experience, and b) that most AI researchers haven't thought about this. We'll just have to disagree about a) but see my answer to the other reply about the implicit question behind the CRE. Regarding b), I never said they haven't thought about it. I said "few people truly understand" by which I meant they have failed to understand the implications and have drawn the wrong conclusions. You don't get gold stars for thinking hard. Regarding LessWrong, all I can say is that you can't know you are "less wrong" until you know what is true. In logic you can't assume an unknowable as your standard of the true. But to reiterate my point, these are questions of philosophy and epistemology, fields which absolutely essential to the "domain of solving the problem MIRI cares about".