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#56 — Abusing Dolores

Making Sense with Sam Harris

CHAPTER

The Hard Problem of Consciousness

When it starts to look like a person and talk, it'll be irresistible to see it as conscious. Once we helplessly attribute states of consciousness to these machines, it will be damn in to our own sense of ourselves to treat them badly. We're going to be in the presence of digital slaves. How do you maintain a master ervant relationship to something that's smarter than you are? And what does it mean to have a superhumanly intelligent slave? Sa, if the'se two things intention.

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