I don’t think we’re talking ems, we’re talking conscious algorithms which aren’t necessarily humanlike or even particularly intelligent.
And as for the Turing Test, one oughtn’t confuse consciousness with intelligence. A 6-year old human child couldn’t pass off as an adult human, but we still believe the child to be conscious, and my own memories indicate that I indeed was at that age.
Well, I think consciousness, intelligence and personhood are sliding scales anyway, so I may be imagining the output of a Nonperson Predicate somewhat differently to LW norm. OTOH, I guess it’s not a priori impossible that a simple human-level AI could fit on something avvailable to the public, and such an insight would be … risky, yeah. Upvoted.
First of all, I also believe that consciousness is most probably a sliding scale.
Secondly, again you just used “human-level” without specifying human-level at what, at intelligence or at consciousness; as such I’m not sure whether I actually communicated adequately my point that we’re not discussing intelligence here, but just consciousness.
I don’t think we’re talking ems, we’re talking conscious algorithms which aren’t necessarily humanlike or even particularly intelligent.
And as for the Turing Test, one oughtn’t confuse consciousness with intelligence. A 6-year old human child couldn’t pass off as an adult human, but we still believe the child to be conscious, and my own memories indicate that I indeed was at that age.
Well, I think consciousness, intelligence and personhood are sliding scales anyway, so I may be imagining the output of a Nonperson Predicate somewhat differently to LW norm. OTOH, I guess it’s not a priori impossible that a simple human-level AI could fit on something avvailable to the public, and such an insight would be … risky, yeah. Upvoted.
First of all, I also believe that consciousness is most probably a sliding scale.
Secondly, again you just used “human-level” without specifying human-level at what, at intelligence or at consciousness; as such I’m not sure whether I actually communicated adequately my point that we’re not discussing intelligence here, but just consciousness.
Well, they do seem to be correlated in any case. However, I was referring to consciousness (whatever that is.)