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What do you think are the beliefs, sayings, mindsets, or whatever of this generation that will make YOUR kids embarrassed or exasperated or say "Oh Mom/Dad!" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, consciousness is really, really complicated. We might not be capable of knowing if we are LLMs in meatsuits. An LLM might be a highly vocal infant, and we simply wouldn't have a great way of really making that judgement. Shit, we still can't define consciousness in humans--or other animals--in any meaningful way.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. I think it's a spectrum, and even a chair (an object that forms a feedback loop of forces with its surroundings that depends on its previous state) is conscious to a degree.

I don't think there is a line

[–] femtech@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

There will be a legal line at some point.