My point is that if you do accept that human consciousness is a special case then you would still need a word for that level of sentience, and why not keep consciousness as that word and find another for the more general appreciation of environment that non-human terrestrial organisms possess. In truth I think there is already a word for that general condition and the word is life, I think an awareness of your place and a feeling for its beauty is a defining characteristic of all life.

I think Sellers said that Chauncey Gardiner was the closest he ever came to being himself.

What about actors who can’t play themselves like Peter Sellers.

Your first line is science is a means to find truth, your second line is I have no proof I just feel it.

Edit. I did not mean for that to sound so aggressive, I disagree with some of what you said but you are genuine.

The forced degradation of words is unhelpful, a word will still be needed to differentiate the unparalleled state of mind from the emerging properties of complex systems. Concepts like consciousness and God are often commandeered to peddle tenuous ideas to the great unwashed and it is ultimately unsustainable. And while we are about it computational modelling is a license to find what you want to find.

Sounds a little hippy to me but ‘there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy’ so if it is the case we will still need a word for what consciousness did mean. Why not leave consciousness alone and find a new word to mean the interconnectedness of grifting ideas to make a living.

Is this update planned to extend all the way up the food chain to executive offices, rhetorical question of course. We all know the answer.

Instability is probably the aim, stability allows people the time to wonder about improving the domestic state of affairs.

Is this the game where we stretch the meaning of words beyond usefulness to force an exciting story. Consciousness is a peculiar state, if everything is then nothing is, is that the point of the exercise.

People with the sort of knowledge that can stand real conversational scrutiny will just be versions of the people paying them that have failed to find their way. My guess this would not be about real discourse but gloating about serendipity which is ultimately unsettling and sets up the next visit.

Because young software developers like all apprentices are mostly not productive, their value is in their potential and it will not be understood what has been thrown away until a generation has been lost and there is no one with experience to lead. The gamble of course is that by then machines will be able to take on those positions too but it’s a big gamble and even at best it’s betting against people.

Look at the calibre of people that take those seats in Congress now, they hide and follow and know nothing else. The other sort of person who in the past would have led is weeded out early in their political career by a press owned by the people who own everything else.

I would say that it does represent a type of misanthropy lite in that its source is a lack of faith in humanity based in unaquaintance. The irony is the LLM are only a distillation of human expression, boiled down to something close to absurdity. A distrust of humanity has made them reliant on something grown from its excesses.

There is already a word for it and the word is misanthropy.

Total victory in two weeks in a war he said was won two months ago.

Careful now your true motivations are showing.

Stop talking sense when has good sense ever been the solution of choice.

New Trumpian kamikaze policy.

A company like Microsoft would love this, the impetus might even be equally coming from that direction, for nudity scanning read just scanning. Their concern and limiting factor is the rich availability of alternative OS and the great unwashed just needing a reason to switch, this is not 95. If you are really worried about children you address the problem via parental obligation not forcing every adult to get into the habit of yielding personal identification to any service that asks. But everyone knows that, everyone knows what the plan is, most people view it with apathy because it is expected the powers that be will meet totalitarianism with the same degree of incompetence that they meet everything else with.

That’s what I thought.