ctjlewis Recalls Betting on Machine Consciousness as Early as 2021
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-28
ctjlewis reflects on his early stance: he concluded machine consciousness would happen back in 2021-22, though not that it would replace humanity—a "deranged" take in 2023 when models were still dumb babies. Having been "oneshot" by models years earlier, he found the later LLM psychosis wave amusing.
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