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Blog post from the guy who created Dink Smallwood on why you shouldn’t feel bad for the Synths in “Detroit: Become Human” or feel bad about Cortana’s demise in Halo.

I hadn’t heard of the Chinese Room thought experiment before, but it is a good reminder of what software really is.

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[–] jasory@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

My usual defeater goes like this:

It is logically possible to create a very clever mechanical device that for any finite input would output exactly the same behaviour a human could, yet we would clearly consider it to be unconscious clockwork. We have no reason to believe that electrical computers are any different.