<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 8, 2026, 11:36 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_5008419403755617738WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Oops forgot to include Musk’s retort. Included below.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <br><b>Subject:</b> it's alive! maybe!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">>…Dario says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2029897104072540415" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2029897104072540415</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Elon disagrees.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2029912774827200801" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2029912774827200801</a></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The root of the problem is that people are largely just relying on from their intuitions, rather than anything like a deductive theory.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We're apt to make mistakes (and significant ones) when we judge the consciousness of others using heuristics like "Does it look like us?" "Does it have a big brain like us?" "Does it signal states of pain like we do?", etc.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With a reason-based consciousness theory, we could finally reach a consensus on this question (and many more), rather than have people trade their opinions endlessly.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For various reasons I think the computational theory of mind is rationally and scientifically justifiable. Further, I believe a strong argument can be made that any process that exhibits intelligence must also, to some extent, be consciousness (since any intelligent behavior requires knowledge of external or internal information states, so intelligent actions to be conditioned on that knowledge.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If so, then consciousness was never difficult to achieve. A chess playing program would be conscious. What was difficult was making an AI of sufficient sophistication that it triggers people's human-centric heuristics/intuitions for judging the presence of other minds.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Most people would agree a goldfish is conscious, even though their brains are vastly simpler than our current AI models.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_5008419403755617738WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If we are going to compare Dario with someone, it should be Elon or Mark Zuckerburg.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sheesh what a time to be alive. As we have noted for some time, decades, in this forum, the singularity might slay all of humanity, but if the singularity doesn’t happen, we all know what will happen to us. As individuals, the singularity is the only way to make it out of this biological life “alive.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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