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Religious scholars met with Anthropic

159 points · 412 comments · bookofjoe

  1. Noaidi · · focus · HN ↗
    Only humans can have morality. If you do not feel pain, you cannot empathize with pain if you cannot die, you cannot emphasize with the loss of life.

    Just stop this already.

    You’re all imagining that Spock was the main character of Star Trek, but it was in fact, the emotional living Captain Kirk, who was the main star.

    1. bertili · · focus · HN ↗
      This would presume we knew what consciousness and pain is. We don't. We we are clueless. There is not even a starting point of a science here.

      In this light your viewpoint is dogmatic. LLMs may help to offer a new perspective on consciousness and we should at least be open to that until some better theories arise.

      1. Noaidi · · focus · HN ↗
        We know what consciousness is, we don’t know how it arises.

        Consciousness is being aware of something internal to one's self, or of states or objects in one's external environment.

        We also know what pain is.

        1. svnt · · focus · HN ↗
          You just moved the magic to “being aware” — now the question is only what has awareness instead of what has consciousness.
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