Blog post from the guy who created Dink Smallwood on why you shouldn’t feel bad for the Synths in “Detroit: Become Human” or feel bad about Cortana’s demise in Halo.
I hadn’t heard of the Chinese Room thought experiment before, but it is a good reminder of what software really is.
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My usual defeater goes like this:
It is logically possible to create a very clever mechanical device that for any finite input would output exactly the same behaviour a human could, yet we would clearly consider it to be unconscious clockwork. We have no reason to believe that electrical computers are any different.