Alexis Gallagher Mocks AI Consciousness Debate With Orwellian Jibe
alexisgallagher · x · 2026-10-02
Alexis Gallagher parodies Orwell's 1984 to skewer the current AI consciousness debate: imagine the future as a philosophically naive boot, ignorant of computational functionalism and the hard problem of consciousness, stamping forever on a human face that has actually thought about these issues. A sharp jab at the quality of AI consciousness discourse.
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