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Something doesn't have to be conscious to have a genuine reflection of humanity in it. A statue is just a slab of marble that has been given some peculiar shape: is it conscious?

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The context is "Anthropic treating models like people" which is 100% about consciousness, suffering, subjective awareness etc..

edit: in case you hadn't seen it, this kind of stuff https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations

But are they really "treating the AI models like people" or just properly acknowledging the true reflection of humanity within them, the way we might acknowledge the 'humanity' in a statue?

I don't know why you keep doubling down. You can read in the text I linked that I'm right and you're wrong. Goodbye.

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