Post #4362763
2026-08-03 08:31 UTC
There's plenty of routes that arrive at the same place, and if the destination is all that matters to you, it's fine to ignore the journey. But often, those end-points have subtle differences that are only revealed when things go wrong. If all you care about is how things work, chances are good that you're in for an unpleasant surprise when things *fail*.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-03 08:32
I recently found myself arguing with an interviewer about whether AI is/could be conscious. Not whether it might someday be possible to make an artificial consciousness - as a materialist, I'll stipulate to this. I think everything we call "consciousness" is the result of a physical process occurring within our bodies (and *possibly* around them?), so I think it's perfectly reasonable to imagine that someday we might create another physical process that produces the same effect. 4/