Google does it because they want to enslave you to the mock capitalist teat. China does it because they want to enslave you to the mock socialist teat. Its very different.
Because candidates with any sort of real competence are weeded out early in their political careers by a press owned by the sort of people that would view actual leadership as a threat.
I meant it as a joke, so his argument is he opened the isolation tank door and happily got into a fecal stew or while he was laying in it someone opened the door, shit in his tank and then closed the door and he didn't notice.
I agree that people that dismiss current AI models as hype and slop have not used them to any extent. I am constantly astounded by their abilities. The problem with dismissing them as a grift is that it is a distraction from how we should be thinking clearly about how to confine them in the event that they are not a grift.
It depends what the game is, and I don't think the people that think they know what the game is know what the game is. They believe they are ushering in something that will set them apart from the general population but which in fact will probably not view them as anything of more value than the rest of us.
My point is that if you do accept that human consciousness is a special case then you would still need a word for that level of sentience, and why not keep consciousness as that word and find another for the more general appreciation of environment that non-human terrestrial organisms possess. In truth I think there is already a word for that general condition and the word is life, I think an awareness of your place and a feeling for its beauty is a defining characteristic of all life.
Well if not know then have sufficient ethics to properly commit to the job of work they have publicly taken on.