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Consciousness Actually Explained: EC Theory – LessWrong

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@DavidChalmer @danieldennett @SamHarrisOrg @annakaharris @ESYudkowsky @0x49fa98 @visakanv @CineraVerinia @Aella_Girl @selentelechia @eigenrobot @nickcammarata @burny_tech @kharmabum @PsychedelicBrah @webmasterdave @ErgoEcho @tasshinfogleman @Malcolm_Ocean @DonyChristie
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Eliezer’s argument against p-zombies is perfectly circular, I can’t really take someone seriously if they don’t notice that
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Care to elaborate? In re-skimming his post I’m not seeing it. All I really want to use from that post is anti-epiphenomenalism; there is some in-universe, physically causal reason we are talking about consciousness.
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Replying to @thezahima @DavidChalmer @danieldennett @SamHarrisOrg @annakaharris @ESYudkowsky @visakanv @CineraVerinia @Aella_Girl @selentelechia @eigenrobot @nickcammarata @burny_tech @kharmabum @PsychedelicBrah @webmasterdave @ErgoEcho @tasshinfogleman @Malcolm_Ocean @DonyChristie
Ok maybe not circular but full of bad assumptions l 1. (unprovable) consciousness is a software program 2. the parts of the program we can measure have obvious utility 3. the parts we can’t measure are exactly like the parts that we can (dubious) 1/2

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Replying to @0x49fa98 @thezahima @DavidChalmer @danieldennett @SamHarrisOrg @annakaharris @ESYudkowsky @visakanv @CineraVerinia @Aella_Girl @selentelechia @eigenrobot @nickcammarata @burny_tech @kharmabum @PsychedelicBrah @webmasterdave @ErgoEcho @tasshinfogleman @Malcolm_Ocean @DonyChristie
4. Therefore the unmeasurable parts of the program have non-obvious utility 5. Therefore anything that looks like it’s running the program is running the whole program Try applying this logic to a full stack web application and tell me how it goes
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Perhaps linking to his post was a tactical mistake – I don’t want to defend eliezer’s entire post/frame. What objections do you have to the one thing I said I wanted to use/extract from the post? Your other points are either rendered irrelevant or answered in my document.
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