Grady Booch shares fully AI-generated philosophy paper asking if a thermostat is conscious
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-09
Renowned software engineering scholar Grady Booch shared a fully AI-generated philosophy paper, "What Is It Like to Be a Thermostat? A Philosophical Inquiry into the Limits of Subjective Experience" by I. M. Nest, admitting he "wasn't going to waste my energy on it" himself.
The paper takes the seemingly absurd question of thermostat consciousness as a serious lens on the limits of subjective experience — a humorous nod to ongoing debates about AI consciousness.
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