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106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient

Philosophical Disquisitions

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The Importance of Animal Consciousness

Wilkin: I think there's constantly a threat of underestimating how different consciousness could be in other creatures. In some sense, you kind of have to, in some sense, start with the human case. That's where we got the concept of consciousness from in the first place. The fact that these questions seem maybe in principle, undecidable and so difficult is one reason that illusionists are like, you made a mistake earlier.

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