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Yglesias: “Your hot takes won’t solve the major riddles of Western philosophy.”

True. Nevertheless, my hot take on this particular topic would take this line of attack if I were to try to pursue it:

“A precondition of consciousness is being alive; A.I. is not alive; so A.I. can’t be conscious.”

I suppose that just pushes the question to, why don’t I think A.I. is alive? And yet that might be an interesting distinction to explore, between being living and being conscious. And yet — and this is Yglesias’ point — that area has already probably been vastly explored.

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