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Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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i don't know why your shitty whinging made it click but damn, it really is just Pascal's wager again. "we don't know if the spooky calculators have souls so better to act as if they dOoOoOo!"
You could be totally right for all I know, but my argument against is that we humans have no idea what consciousness is & souls may not be real at all. To me panpsychism is more plausible than the vast majority of theories or mumbo jumbo regarding the soul, saying this as a comparison of plausibility without claiming that consciousness and the soul are the same or necessarily closely related.
Lack of evidence is not evidence for your pet theory.
"what if EVERYTHING is secretly conscious, including the random word predictor" i say, flailing my paws in the air