Artificial intelligence is not conscious

Re:Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang by arwineap on Thursday June 04, 2026 @06:44AM (#48396756)

> We are not special or superior, we just won a lottery of mutation giving us efficient brain.

Isn't this exactly what makes us special?

That, opposable thumbs, magic wireless communication, and space travel

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Re:Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang by ang_cire on Thursday June 04, 2026 @08:34AM (#48397758)

Those are your own standards of achievement you are applying.

Other species may look at us and think we're wasting our lives and potential making a bunch of people rich at our collective expense, and ruining the environment as we do it.

We are only "special" in the sense of "different" (and we may not be that on any universal scale), not necessarily in the sense of "better", and very possibly we're not better, and may very well Great Filter ourselves out of existence in short order.

Other animals aren't so "special" as to have a Doomsday Clock sitting at 11:58:45.

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