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Re:Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI ... by leroy-is-here on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:49AM (#35568965)
I’m trying to show you something miraculous. It simply involves understanding that you are not your thoughts.
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Re:Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI ... by elif on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:37AM (#35569438)
A simple linguistic ontology is one of the most perverse, heuristic patterns of thought.

A rock is also more than it's thoughts, and retains some degree of consciousness. Imagining concepts like souls as a sort of litmus test for consciousness only serves to reinforce a thought-based comprehension.

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Re:Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI ... by leroy-is-here on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:51AM (#35569569)
I'm asking you to stop arguing inside "simple linguistic ontology".
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