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lil · 3703 days ago · link · · parent · post: If An Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Know?

How are you certain that I'm a 'human consciousness or a sentient being'? What if your the only sentient being and we are all philosophical zombies? I'm not certain. You could have deliberately made a spelling error to trick me into thinking you were human. Still, I'd like to think that hubski is perhaps 99.9% human. -- that's one reason why I love meetups or reports of meetups. I've seen some faces. I've received postcards written in ink by what seems to be hands (although I can't be sure).

Even conversations on IRC seem to be generated by humans.

Kyon and the Talking Cat is a great clip and I totally agree with the cat. What I am saying (or writing) might well be understood in a different way by the other. It might even be heard as gibberish.

Would that influence the way you interact with people? What happens when we get to the singularity and migrate our brains over to computers? Will you discriminate against transhumans? I leave that to future generations - although the piece I posted recently about head transplants moves in that direction.

Re transhumans: If a robot is conscious of inequality and expresses that awareness, I would certainly pause. If a robot is programmed to get revenge when it is treated badly, our engineers might have some 'splaining to do.

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