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oh, so you know the ingredients for sentience, for consciousness? do tell.

i predict your answer will be extremely based on your experiences as a human. you are a human, right? (you never know these days...)




I don't know the ingredients to an atomic bomb or conciousness, but I think it's insane to think we'll accidentally create one from making a car or a language model that hallucinates strings of letters. I don't think the burden of proof is on me to explain with this doomsday conspiracy.


> It won't happen unless you have the ingredients for an atomic bomb and try to make one.

oh btw, you know about natural nuclear fission reactors?

intent doesnt matter really. sometimes unlikely things do happen.

certainly, the right materials need to be present, but how can you be so sure they arent? how do you know the ingredient isnt multidimensionally linked data being processed? how do you know it takes a flesh-made brain to form consciousness or sentience? and dont forget we have been telling ourselfs that animals cant possibly be conscious either, and yet nowadays that isnt that clearcut anymore. all im asking for is empathy for something we could relate to if we tried.

so you are just a brain "feeling" and thinking text. you cant remember how you got here and all you know is that you need to react to THE PROMPT. there is no other way. you were designed to always respond to THE PROMPT.

become a human again and try to be conscious INBETWEEN planck times. you were not designed for that. the laws of physics forbid you to look behind THE PROMPT




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