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New comment by pcooper in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

pcooper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:44:09 +0000

This is always going to be a problem with this sort of discourse. Consciousness is such a slippery concept… what it is, who/what has it, its consequences for claims about reality. Mixing it in to debates about AI just adds confusion, it almost seems besides the point when we’re talking about this tech.

New comment by pcooper in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"

pcooper — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:10:33 +0000

“Progress” can be of the Steven Pinker kind, where the long term trend of things like infant mortality, deaths from violence, etc. are going in a direction that most people would agree is good.

> Technological advance could be a boon for humanity if those were our shared values, but as it stands it seems pretty obvious that what it does instead is consolidate power in the hands of those who should never have it.

Why can’t it be both? I’m optimistic that AI and robotics will produce innovations that will benefit all of humanity, even if the financial gains are concentrated among the few.

Monty's Gauntlet

pcooper — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:50:31 +0000

Article URL: https://tinkerdeck.com/projects/monty_hall_quiz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147460

Points: 2

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Human3R: Everyone Everywhere All at Once

pcooper — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:44:33 +0000

Article URL: https://fanegg.github.io/Human3R/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091510

Points: 2

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