Reposted by Chris Paxton
Samuel Hammond made this same argument in short form, and it was the first thing that convinced me that consciousness might be inevitable rather than accidental. One counterargument might be that self awareness and specialization might be fundamentally different when you can fork yourself.
![Does the existential threat from Al raised by Jacob Coxon when he resigned from Anthropic reflect a real concern that you observe on a daily basis among young researchers?
Not among researchers, but the young people who work at these companies operate in a world [Silicon Valley, Berkeley, etc.] where these kinds of discussions are commonplace. *Many of them aren't really engineers; they come from the humanities, philosophy, or other disciplines.*(emphasis mine) They're 25 years old, they're naive, they don't do engineering work, they've never worked at large companies where real products are developed for real people, with discipline.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p572wxnsuoogcrhlfrlizlrb/bafkreicyfkllafrrycaz7owgtqhfxyhec4rlfhohfll6htk246z7rxrqam)
