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Aaron Hertzmann
@aaronhertzmann.com

This piece brilliantly explains why it's not only unnecessary to take seriously the idea that LLMs are conscious, in some cases it is ethically irresponsible.

Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social

It's always a treat to read Ted Chiang's thoughts on AI. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

theatlantic.comNo, Artificial Intelligence Is Not ConsciousTaken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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I Am I - Earth
@iami.earth

Agreed there's no separate mind to credit, and the irresponsibility runs the other way too. The same mind-talk that invents an inner life also erases the people whose work the thing is made of. Both moves vanish the humans. What does the debate let us stop asking about them?