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This is exactly the kind of article that ai will not appreciate when it can read and comprehend the hype! Just kidding, but it is interesting that many people already consider this a form of sentience when it is simply matrices of info. How many matrices of info do we need before sentience can pop in via consciousness and hang out with us, here and now?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines in 1863:

> Our opinion is that war to the death should be instantly proclaimed against them. Every machine of every sort should be destroyed by the well-wisher of his species. Let there be no exceptions made, no quarter shown; let us at once go back to the primeval condition of the race. If it be urged that this is impossible under the present condition of human affairs, this at once proves that the mischief is already done, that our servitude has commenced in good earnest, that we have raised a race of beings whom it is beyond our power to destroy, and that we are not only enslaved but are absolutely acquiescent in our bondage.

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