ink on Nostr: Thanks for sharing it. You were very generous in your responses to questions that ...

Thanks for sharing it. You were very generous in your responses to questions that would have made me bristle.

I want to quote something beautiful you said in response to the somewhat ridiculous question of whether it is possible for computers to ever be conscious, if the latest Opus model or whatever isn't already:

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I think all things are possible. But I don't think our contemporary computation is producing anything that can meaningfully or usefully be talked about in terms of consciousness. I think that's a wild and possibly dangerous mistake. I am someone who ascribes consciousness to mountains, and oceans, and to blades of grass. I fundamentally believe that consciousness is a vast universal field that underlies all living things. And so I have no problem with the idea of machines being conscious.