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Dear Freya, David and I met while he was in the states, debating with himself about the move to CEU.…
I was a respondent, and probably fell into OUP’s “persistent skeptic” category. I don’t know anyone who uses AI in…
I don’t think this is the right reading (though the one reference to the intentional stance in the Atlantic piece…
Was anyone saying that beliefs and desires *suffice* for moral status? I guess if intentionality requires consciousness, and consciousness suffices…
Thanks for the reply, David, it’s given me a lot to think about.
Commenting to subscribe to this. Ring of Gyges thought experiment enthusiast, here.
…after threats from state legislators to cut funding to the school in Fayetteville. Why? The candidate, Professor Emily Suski, had signed an amicus brief on behalf of transgender athletes.
Not a good look for Arkansas, and it raises a serious question about who would want the job given this?
“I don’t think we need to answer any of those questions to take the intentional stance towards an LLM, because…