Chris van der Loo on Mythryl: “Wait until you’re questioning consciousness, you’ll finally…”

Wait until you’re questioning consciousness, you’ll finally understand why I had an existential crisis my entire first year studying cognitive science

dan@danabra.mov

unpopular take with both crowds so far we’ve only ever seen thinking ability *together* with consciousness (first person experience), which is why we’re instinctively coupling them imo thinking doesn’t require that. i’d say llms “think” and “generate ideas” — but have no first person experience

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