If you like, we can assume that Eliezer is wrong about that. In which case, I’ll have to ask what you think is actually true, whether a smarter version of Aristotle could tell the difference by sitting in a dark room thinking about consciousness, and whether or not we should expect this to matter.
Well, if nothing else happens our new computer substrate will stop working. But if we remove that problem—in what sense has this not already happened?
If you like, we can assume that Eliezer is wrong about that. In which case, I’ll have to ask what you think is actually true, whether a smarter version of Aristotle could tell the difference by sitting in a dark room thinking about consciousness, and whether or not we should expect this to matter.