Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that [...] multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded.
Federico Fuga (HappyCactus)
"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not."
-Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
