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A preference is meaningless without consciousness and qualia.


Consider a philosophical doomsday AI: it behaves exactly as if it has a desire to harm you (meaning that it does!), but it doesn't actually want to do that.

Or we can just drop all this sophistry nonsense.


Look, i understand being concerned about robot and self-driving safety. AI is a nebulous term and we don't need to restrict anyone training AIs.




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