Max LeibmanWhen someone says, “It’s possible that this LLM is already conscious,” treat them as if they had said “It’s possible that this giant table of numbers is already conscious.”
jmjm"But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."
"No brain?"
"Oh, there's a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat! That's what I've been trying to tell you."
"So ... what does the thinking?"
"You're not understanding, are you? You're refusing to deal with what I'm telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat."
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"