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4 days agoWe Will Treat AI as Conscious Regardless of Whether It Is
AI consciousness cannot be confirmed or denied with certainty, and Dawkins’s reaction shows human difficulty holding uncertainty.
One is that I almost always qualify the claims I make. This is not to weasel (weakening a claim to protect it from criticism) but because I am aware of my epistemic limitations: as Socrates said, I know that I know nothing. People often prefer claims made with certainty and see expressions of doubt as signs of weakness. Another way I annoy people is by presenting alternatives to my views and providing reasons as to why they might be right.