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These questions are ridiculous because they conflate "intelligence" and "sentience", also known as sensory experience or "qualia". While we often have a solid epistemic foundation for the claims we make about intelligence because we can measure it. Sentience is not something that can be measured on a relative spectrum. Spontaneous emotional and sensory experience are entirely independent of intelligence and most definitely independent of an external prompt.
You are right that infants are DEFINITELY sentient, but how does that have anything to do with Lemoin...
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The substance is irrelevant to what qualia a system has (or doesn't have).
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What? What does consciousness have to do with 'the thing humans do that let us land on the Moon, invent plastic, etc.'?
Huh? Seems neither relevant nor true. (Like, it's obviously false that conscious machines are impossible, and obviously false that there's consensus 'conscious machines are impossible'.) I don't understand what you even mean here.
The dumb thing isn't rejecting the label "AGI". It's thinking that this rejection matters for any of the arguments about AGI risk.
... Also, how on earth is the idea of AGI unfalsifiable? In a world where machines melt whenever you try to get them to par-human capabilities on science, you would have falsified AGI.
I submitted a proposal but did not receive a confirmation that it was received. Perhaps I should submit again?