Confusing the metaphor of agency with real sentience: an X debate on AI minds
TheoLes367794 · x · 2026-09-24
TheoLes367794 argues that hundreds of examples on X show people confusing the metaphor of agency with actual subjective internality, and the downstream tragedies of over-ascribing sentience to math are hard to exaggerate. dioscuri replies that machine sentience remains an active controversy in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and AI research, taken seriously by Hinton, Chalmers and Sutskever.
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