alt Hacker NewsMy issue is that I've seen some bad takes in rationalist circles that believe in functionalism, and consciousness as an emergent property of a sufficiently complex computation.
Using that as their foundation, they've then argued that most animals are not conscious (or less conscious), but LLMs are.
That is wild.
I strongly believe that any definition of consciousness that excludes all animals is unusable BS (but people love to argue about consciousness without defining it at all, anyway).