By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026 In support of this (outlandish) proposition, the interviewer performed a kind of cognitive coin-trick: "I can often predict what my wife is going to say, and so can a chatbot that's been trained on her words. 12/ 1542
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026"Therefore, we're both doing the same conscious work - and therefore the chatbot will eventually be as conscious as I am." 13/ 2532
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/08/2026"Predicting what you'll say through an understanding based on a theory of your mind" and "predicting what you'll say based on a statistical analysis of your utterances" might produce the same *outputs*, but they are *not* the same trick. You can tell by what happens when the trick fails. 14/ 111915
Steve @drexcitement.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This is one of the more ridiculous arguments - I can put a speaker in a robot arm so it plays "there, there" while it pats you on the back, and I've invented Robot Empathy? A body pillow is Artificial Intimacy? Who really believes that "doing" is proof of "thinking"? 1213
