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  • “Seems” being the operating word here. But children think that Muppets are conscious. People lose their temper at self-checkout machines. Faithful of different religions attribute will and power to all sorts of idols and other inanimate objects like supposed fragments of a specific cross. The most famous work of fantasy fiction is about a malevolent piece of jewelry. Humans are very good at attributing consciousness to non-conscious entities. We are easily fooled in this respect.

    Even if some putative AI may be conscious, an LLM is just something that looks up words in a database with probability weights attached. This technology cannot lead to consciousness.






  • The Good Place. It starts off deceptively shallow but by the end it became one of my favorite shows of all time.

    Dark. The constant time travel makes it hard to keep track of what’s going on a lot of the time but if you can manage, it’s very rewarding. Great character development. Not the best ending, but good enough.

    Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad have some poorly written characters but the well-written ones are very well-written.

    I didn’t include any shows based on books because I felt that would go against the scope of your question.