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Religious scholars met with Anthropic

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Noaidi · 1791085293 · 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 · 1791086917 · 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 · 1791126961 · focus · HN ↗
    > This would presume we knew what consciousness and pain is. We don't. We we are clueless.
    > LLMs may help to offer a new perspective on consciousness
    How do we gain a new perspective on something we do not understand?
    This is the doublespeak by the AI psychotics that drives me crazy.
    hardbass · 1791128529 · focus · HN ↗
    By not already assuming to know the answer and stating that falsehood loudly without proof.

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