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TL;DR: The long-term goal may be better understood as preserving certain properties of civilization rather than preserving Homo sapiens as a biological species. Conscious experience is one candidate for such a property, and if it is morally fundamental, then preserving humanity's knowledge about consciousness may itself be a longtermist priority....

TL;DR: We can propose “consciousness tests” only if we imply the existence of a task that only a genuinely conscious system can solve. Therefore, if we invent an internally uncontradictive solution to that task, we’ll create consciousness. I won’t waste my – and yours – time arguing for the importance...