Tl;DR The hard question of consciouness isn't 'that' hard. The challenge is all philosophical questions lack closure mechanisms. When institutions (e.g. courts) are forced to decide if AI is conscious, a settlement will quickly follow In June 2022, a Google Engineer, Blake Lemoine, who worked with LaMDA, a forerunner of...

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What Are We Actually Evaluating When We Say a Belief “Tracks Truth”?

I’ve been thinking about this issue a while. Certainly since grad school. The classic definition of knowledge has been known to be unsatisfactory for decades - sometimes a justified true belief is just a lucky guess. Attempts to patch JTB have generally been additive – knowledge should be justified true...

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