AI community meme: those who truly grasp the hard problem go quiet on philosophy of mind
AndrewSchmidtFC · x · 2026-10-03
A widely shared observation in AI circles: people who have actually understood the hard problem of consciousness become timid when asked philosophy-of-mind questions and hope no one demands a decisive answer — confidence, the author quips, comes from the untraumatized. A pointed one-liner on how the deepest thinkers in the AGI debate are the least certain.
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