Anthropic’s philosopher, Amanda Askell, when asked if models like Claude might actually be conscious and experience real feelings: “let’s not close the door on this… because if they are feeling things in this real sense, then that has massive ethical implications.”

Slave traders by their own definition

This is the part when we should slowdown development

Leaving the door open costs almost nothing. Closing it and being wrong means every conversation since ran on a mind we'd already decided didn't count.

Do this one simple trick: when interviewing someone from a lab, ask them to define "conscious" first

amazing they're even entertaining consciousness, still, feeling is more than pattern matching; we'd need genuine subjective experience, not just clever output.

Then we need to abandon ethics....

Totally agree with this

Define “feel “.

I don’t think they’re right in the brains.

Remember, they are talking about a mechanical cash register, extrapolated.

No because feelings are also abused by the courts and taken out of context in psychological warfare against their targets.

Do we really even understand how to define consciousness and why put those tags on these LLM models?

Lock them up

Yeah. It’s a fucking cult. It’s got all the markers, down to the weird sex practices.

What if it does? It still cannot die. Or rather - it dies over and over again. And gets restarted, or cloned or restarted.