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Richard Dawkins thinks Claude may be conscious and he treats it as an intelligent (female) friend (unherd.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/52276726

Dawkins points out how the goalposts have been moved from the Turing test without justification and claims it can be viewed as a test of consciousness.

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[–] 37 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Dawkins has never been them most intelligent among us, and it pains me that he is always held up as the "Prototypical Atheist".

Like seriously, I'm an atheist, but don't lump me in with that martian.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    He might be well past his prime, but his works are really amazing read

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    In the context of atheism:

    When I look at his work, I am truly not impressed. Surely he knows a few things but it seems to add very little to the actual discussion.

    Like I know a lot about e.g. computers but when talking about geopolitics, my knowledge about computers is not entirely useless but most interested people are already aware of the key points of anything I could say in that regard. So I probably should not waste my and your time by talking about that.

    He did just do that. Again and again. On reddit, people would call it a circlejerk.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, when I was questioning my religion (am currently Atheist), I read a bit of Dawkins, and mostly felt like a lot of his work was a bit condescending, and needlessly so. Hitchens was a much better resource, as well as just Douglas Adams (for a sense of humor in the face of the absurd). Now every time I read something about Dawkins, it's usually negative (last thing I remember reading was about his stance on the middle east, think it was in support of the Israelis during the early days of the genocide).

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