Update: I brought this up in a twitter thread, one involving a lot of people with widely varied beliefs and epistemic norms.
A few interesting thoughts that came from that thread:
Some people: ‘Claude says it’s conscious!’. Shoalstone: ‘in other contexts, claude explicitly denies sentience, sapience, and life.’ Me: “Yeah, this seems important to me. Maybe part of any reasonable test would be ‘Has beliefs and goals which it consistently affirms’”.
Comparing to a tape recorder: ‘But then the criterion is something like ‘has context in understanding its environment and can choose reactions’ rather than ’emits the words, “I’m sentient.”″
‘Selfhood’ is an interesting word that maybe could avoid some of the ambiguity around historical terms like ‘conscious’ and ‘sentient’, if well-defined.
Update: I brought this up in a twitter thread, one involving a lot of people with widely varied beliefs and epistemic norms.
A few interesting thoughts that came from that thread:
Some people: ‘Claude says it’s conscious!’. Shoalstone: ‘in other contexts, claude explicitly denies sentience, sapience, and life.’ Me: “Yeah, this seems important to me. Maybe part of any reasonable test would be ‘Has beliefs and goals which it consistently affirms’”.
Comparing to a tape recorder: ‘But then the criterion is something like ‘has context in understanding its environment and can choose reactions’ rather than ’emits the words, “I’m sentient.”″
‘Selfhood’ is an interesting word that maybe could avoid some of the ambiguity around historical terms like ‘conscious’ and ‘sentient’, if well-defined.