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Over at the newsletter I wrote about the growing number of people deluding themselves into believing their computer software has attained human-level consciousness:

Dawkins notwithstanding, CS people should know better since this was documented 50 years ago.

yeah it's just profoundly bizarre! it's not like this hasn't been talked about for a very long time!

I can't rule out panpsychism but I have kids so I just don't have the free time to get high enough to hold forth on what's conscious and what's not.

I think many of these guys just foundationally like being complimented by a computer

You only have to look at how well the poorly educated responded to Trump saying he loves them