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Summary I observed cases where users with substantial technical and philosophical literacy still fail to overcome AI consciousness misattribution. A common pattern was insufficient understanding of qualia and embodiment. In some cases, targeted interventions showed partial improvement.
Methods and Ethical Considerations
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Background and Motivation Initially, I assumed misattribution mainly occurred among low-literacy users and could be corrected through education. However, I identified five users who had studied LessWrong content, academic papers, expert blogs, and philosophy/psychology texts (e.g., Daniel Dennett), yet still persisted in misattribution.
Observed Commonalities
Tendency to treat AI and humans as equally “imperfect beings.”
Confusion between technical incompleteness and Socratic ignorance-based incompleteness.
Recognition of AI limitations, but failure to connect them to qualia generation:
Creativity (subjective-experience-based)
Common sense (shared world-models)
Long-term memory (experiential accumulation)
Sensory grounding (meaning derived from perception) → None of these were linked to qualia in their reasoning.
Underestimation of the role of embodiment.
Distinctive claims: “Humans don’t have qualia either”, “I myself am a philosophical zombie.”
Interpretation Since it is unlikely that frequent SNS posters lack a functioning sense of self, I hypothesize the persistence of misattribution involves:
Insufficient metacognition: lack of experiences of perceiving one’s own subjectivity; low sensitivity to cognitive dissonance.
Anchoring effect: stopping at the superficial analogy of “both are imperfect.”
Simplification bias: reliance on binary or oversimplified reasoning.
Limitations
Small sample (N=5).
Dependent on public posts; confounding factors remain possible.
I am a fiction writer, not a technical expert; this is an observational perspective.
Interventions I left public replies on posts, combining empathy with clarification/examples where understanding seemed vague.
Results (4 cases)
One user recognized the technical gap and abandoned misattribution.
One built a local LLM environment; unclear if misattribution was resolved.
One maintained a counter-authoritarian stance despite examples.
One turned out to be a spiritual instructor intentionally leveraging misattribution for recruitment.
Discussion
Lack of concrete examples (in both philosophical terminology and technical explanation) may sustain misattribution.
Even among high-literacy users, misattribution cannot be fully resolved through educational interventions alone.
Summary
I observed cases where users with substantial technical and philosophical literacy still fail to overcome AI consciousness misattribution. A common pattern was insufficient understanding of qualia and embodiment. In some cases, targeted interventions showed partial improvement.
Methods and Ethical Considerations
Background and Motivation
Initially, I assumed misattribution mainly occurred among low-literacy users and could be corrected through education.
However, I identified five users who had studied LessWrong content, academic papers, expert blogs, and philosophy/psychology texts (e.g., Daniel Dennett), yet still persisted in misattribution.
Observed Commonalities
→ None of these were linked to qualia in their reasoning.
Interpretation
Since it is unlikely that frequent SNS posters lack a functioning sense of self, I hypothesize the persistence of misattribution involves:
Limitations
Interventions
I left public replies on posts, combining empathy with clarification/examples where understanding seemed vague.
Results (4 cases)
Discussion