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Note that this does not imply that we necessarily think our Generative AI models are conscious. We likely address them "as if" they were another, what Sweeney (2023) describes as a fictional dualism (also see Coeckelbergh 2011; Krueger & Osler 2022; Krueger & Roberts 2024; Roberts & Krueger 2022).
When the bourgeoisie was still struggling against the nobility backed by the clergy, they advocated free thought and atheism; but once triumphant, they changed their tune and manner and today use religion to support their economic and political control and power.
The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays
Paul Lafargue and Ulrich Baer
Human estimation can no longer touch her. She’s free now to experiment. To discover anything.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
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