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by bondarchuk 632 days ago
I'm not a huge fan of most of his recent output but Scott Alexander was spot on last week when he wrote as a caption to a screenshot of a Claude transcript: "Imagine trying to convince Isaac Asimov that you’re 100% certain the AI that wrote this has nothing resembling true intelligence, thought, or consciousness, and that it’s not even an interesting philosophical question" (https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/sakana-strawberry-and-scary...)

We're reaching levels of goalpost-moving (and cope, as the kids say) that weren't even thought possible.