[ExI] LLM's cannot be concious

[Will Steinberg]

Mary is at a trolley switching station.  The trolley is headed towards 5
people but she can pull a lever that will swich the track.  There are 2
levers but only the red lever switches tracks...

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 12:18 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> Quoting Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>:
>
> > Could you define "understand"?
> >
> > Oh dear this is going to be the Chinese room all over again...
> >
>
> LOL. No its probably going to be worse. Its going to be: if Mary the
> color scientist lived her life in a black and white Chinese room,
> would she understand the meaning of "hóng" the Chinese word for "red"?
> Bonus question: Would Mary try to kill everyone if she managed to
> escape and saw red for the first time?
>
> Stuart LaForge
>
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