Re:Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode's code quality
by ben_w on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:34AM
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I know that I do.
I think (1) it is unlikely that the presence or absence of qualia perfectly lines up with being human.
I strongly suspect (2) that at the very minimum other humans who report thinking like me also have qualia. Otherwise the word wouldn't have been invented.
As (3) minimal definitions of "what's a real person anyway" have led to most of the genocides and other crimes against humanity throughout history, I prefer to act as though all humans have qualia; but that's an argument about how to act under uncertainty, not about what is.
Given (1) and (3), I also assume other animals have qualia and that the meat any dairy industry is as bad as if the same things were done to humans. (Unfortunately, I can't seem to give up cheese yet).
We have seen AI agents demonstrate the creation of language to coordinate group actions, so (2) is possible in principle, but I don't know how we can tell the difference between an AI which accurately self-reports having qualia and one which just says it does but actually has as much as the web browser you're reading this comment in:
I think (1) it is unlikely that the presence or absence of qualia perfectly lines up with being human.
I strongly suspect (2) that at the very minimum other humans who report thinking like me also have qualia. Otherwise the word wouldn't have been invented.
As (3) minimal definitions of "what's a real person anyway" have led to most of the genocides and other crimes against humanity throughout history, I prefer to act as though all humans have qualia; but that's an argument about how to act under uncertainty, not about what is.
Given (1) and (3), I also assume other animals have qualia and that the meat any dairy industry is as bad as if the same things were done to humans. (Unfortunately, I can't seem to give up cheese yet).
We have seen AI agents demonstrate the creation of language to coordinate group actions, so (2) is possible in principle, but I don't know how we can tell the difference between an AI which accurately self-reports having qualia and one which just says it does but actually has as much as the web browser you're reading this comment in:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_creation_in_artificia...