This is by far the silliest part of the sequences for me. Within this blog post, Yudkowsky briefly went insane and decided thought experiments have to be “probable” or “realistic” in order to be engaged with. He then refuses to answer the prompt until the last four sentences, wherein he basically admits that he doesn’t have a framework for answering it.
Suppose someone, that someone indeed being a conscious agent, creates a GLUT and then swiftly dies a horrible death so you can stop focusing on the person who made the GLUT or how it got there and answer the damn question. Is the GLUT conscious?
This is by far the silliest part of the sequences for me. Within this blog post, Yudkowsky briefly went insane and decided thought experiments have to be “probable” or “realistic” in order to be engaged with. He then refuses to answer the prompt until the last four sentences, wherein he basically admits that he doesn’t have a framework for answering it.
Suppose someone, that someone indeed being a conscious agent, creates a GLUT and then swiftly dies a horrible death so you can stop focusing on the person who made the GLUT or how it got there and answer the damn question. Is the GLUT conscious?