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FrustratedMonkyyesterday at 3:29 PM4 repliesview on HN

Yeah. Did you see article that they made a brain organoid (actual brain neurons on a chip) play DOOM?. What are those neurons experiencing?


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AlexeyBrinyesterday at 3:38 PM

> What are those neurons experiencing?

A reasonable explanation is that a few neurons probably don't have conscience so they can't really experience anything.

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layer8yesterday at 3:33 PM

> What are those neurons experiencing?

Doom. (Obviously.)

captainblandyesterday at 3:45 PM

I hadn't until you mentioned it but now I have! I expect one day they'll generate a language model on one and then we can just ask it, assuming they don't give it a special rule about never describing its experiences.

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