Good Reasons for Bad Feelings by Randolph Nesse is a fantastic read for anyone that wants a more detailed examination of evolutionary psychiatry. Dr. Nesse was on an episode of the 80k Hours podcast some time in the last year or two as well.
Do you think you can do this with a human right now? I'm having trouble parsing what this actually would look like.
It also seems like circular logic for your test to rely on "which functional properties this process has that makes it unique compared to non-conscious processing" when the whole challenge is that there apparently isn't a clear line between conscious and none-conscious processing.
To be clear--GPT-4 is the entity that said "that's a fair point." :P
I'm aware that 'chatbots' have existed for half a century, and that LLMs are more than just a chatbot. But are you asserting that there are conscious chatbots right now? Sure, LLMs represent a step-change in the ability of 'chatbots'. But I'm not sure that it's a category error if there in fact are no conscious chatbots at this time.
Frankly, I'm not sure how I would answer this question.
Yair, you are correct.
Point 2) is why I wrote the story. In a conversation about the potential for AI rights, some friends and I came to the disconcerting conclusion that it's kinda impossible to justify your own consciousness (to other people). That unnerving thought prompted the story, since if we ourselves can't justify our consciousness, how can we reasonably expect an AI to do so?
I'd like to retcon that the keyboard appears flat on the desk cube.
Alternatively, I imagine the character struggling to type, sweating about being stuck in a box forever and frustrated by the lack of ergonomic typing options as they frantically try and communicate as fast as possible with the Proctor.
You open your eyes.
Four walls. The surface of the floor and walls is a smooth, matte metal. The entire ceiling glows with a comfortable, soft luminosity like that of the morning sky. There are no doors. There are no windows. It is silent. The surfaces of the walls and floor are seamless, lacking even a hint of how you might have arrived in the room. Not a room: a box.
You walk to a wall and touch it, running your fingers over the metal surface. The wall isn’t cold; it’s lukewarm, actually. You bend over and feel the junction of wall and floor. The surface is unbroken, with a rounded bevel connecting the... (read 990 more words →)
I think your claim that China and the US are the biggest markets due to their being homogeneous is flawed. The United States is far from homogenous and is quite different from China’s demographic makeup.
See Primitive Technology on Youtube.