turchin comments on Open thread, Oct. 17 - Oct. 23, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: turchin 17 October 2016 11:22:18AM 0 points [-]

I read somewhere in his earlier writing that he hopes that AI will explain us what is qualia. So it looks like he postponed the consciousness problem until creation of (friendly) AI.

Comment author: username2 18 October 2016 08:53:39PM 0 points [-]

That sounds more like a cute way of dodging the question.