Comment on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:30:44 GMT

I think Eliezer said something like [...] Anyone?

"GAZP vs. GLUT":

If someday you come to understand consciousness, and look back, and see that there's a program you can write which will output confused philosophical discourse that sounds an awful lot like humans without itself being conscious - then when I ask "How did this program come to sound similar to humans?" the answer is that you wrote it to sound similar to conscious humans, rather than choosing on the criterion of similarity to something else.

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