Hmmm. So your position is more that a toaster is able to serve as a simulacrum of a living thing? Enough that it would genuinely sate someone’s desire to hurt others? I suppose I can follow that. Appreciate the clarification.

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The default assumption, when you're making an extraordinary claim, is that the person making the extraordinary claim shows the evidence why we should believe them. Claiming AI is conscious is the extraordinary claim and yet Stancil thinks everyone else has to provide the evidence to disprove him.

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The Onion is funny and its recent resurgence is great for print media and entertainment. A broad left-liberal alliance should be able to survive some potshots at DNC leadership. Is there a mutual enemy or not

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Like when I finish my wife's french fries

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So now you're positing not only a new form of online influence, but that it's so powerful it can impact people with even the slightest exposure. I'm sorry, but that's just not parsimonious. The simplest explanation for reality not matching the prediction is that the prediction missed something.

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