[ExI] Seemingly Conscious AI Is Coming

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 18/09/2025 23:46, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> Spike, given how your brain works, and given as you know that porn has
> led the commercialization of a lot of tech over the decades (such as
> contributing to VHS winning over Betamax), I have to ask: does this
> thread's title inspire any thoughts..

Thanks, Adrian, for making me snort coffee all over my keyboard!


On 18/09/2025 23:46, spike wrote:
> If human-like thought processes can be simulated in
> silicon, they will be.  If anyone can build it, someone will eventually.  If
> human thought is not substrate dependent, human thought will reside in a
> processor of some kind, eventually.

But spike, don't you realise, that will just be a /simulation/!!1!
It won't be real human thought, just a pale, unsatisfactory imitation 
that will be exactly the same. Except that, like the storm simulation, 
/it won't be wet/. Inside the computer.

Oh My Cat (I don't have a Dog), it will be a zombie! Even worse, a DRY 
zombie!
(cue Stable Diffusion rendering of a laptop on robotic legs, with an 
image of a decomposing, dessicated Max Headroom on the screen, shuffling 
after fleeing, screaming humans, extending its ghostly utility-fog 
claws, muttering "Brainzzz! Wet Brainzzzz!!")


> human thought will reside in a processor of some kind, eventually.

Human thought already exists in a processor of some kind. We call it a 
brain.

-- 
Ben
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