Thank you Ted Chiang!!
“Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document, you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one, you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time”
Ivan Kreilkamp
Ted Chiang is brilliant. He takes the question of AI consciousness to its logical conclusion—really a must-read, right down to the last word:
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
www.theatlantic.com
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
