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Many AI Debates Are Way Too Philosophical and Theoretical

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You don't need to sort out abstruse metaphysical questions to figure out if AIs will take jobs

In this article, I am going to do something unprecedented: I am going to tell people to argue less about cool philosophical questions. Imagine you were in a forest with a bear who was both hungry and, like most bears, evinced little respect for human rights and the will of God. As it happens, there are a number of very interesting philosophical questions involving bears. Are they conscious (almost certainly yes!)? To what extent if any do they have knowledge? Are there really such things as bears, or just particles arranged bear-wise? If a bear assembled as a consequent of a random…

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