Personally, I know two things: I’m conscious, and I’m human. Whether or not other humans are conscious depends on whether there is any conceivable reason why I should be considered different from other humans. There isn’t, so I can only come to the conclusion that all humans are conscious, because all humans are essentially like me.
In other words, stop acting like you’re better than the rest of us. You’re nothing special, and neither am I.
A room with a slot in the wall and a computer running Google Translate on the other side “can’t exist”?
I’m not sure that I know I’m conscious, rather than merely believing I’m conscious.
Potato, potato.
That can exist, and has nothing whatsoever in common with the “Chinese Room” thought experiment.
…that’s a literao description of the setup.
Suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in programming a computer to behave as if it understands Chinese. The machine accepts Chinese characters as input, carries out each instruction of the program step by step, and then produces Chinese characters as output. The machine does this so perfectly that no one can tell that they are communicating with a machine and not a hidden Chinese speaker.[6]
The questions at issue are these: does the machine actually understand the conversation, or is it just simulating the ability to understand the conversation? Does the machine have a mind in exactly the same sense that people do, or is it just acting as if it had a mind?[6]
Now suppose that Searle is in a room with an English version of the program, along with sufficient pencils, paper, erasers and filing cabinets. Chinese characters are slipped in under the door, and he follows the program step-by-step, which eventually instructs him to slide other Chinese characters back out under the door. If the computer had passed the Turing test this way, it follows that Searle would do so as well, simply by running the program by hand.[6]
Please identify the part of this setup that “can’t exist”.
What do you think the copy of Google Translate is translating into, and what do you think it’s doing with those translations?
Producing a simulacrum of natural Chinese based on the input given by the experimenter.
But that’s beside the point, which is that LLMs are not conscious, no matter how much an 85-year-old transphobe thinks the flattery machine has a crush on him.
Google Translate doesn’t do that.
Well, I guess that proves a Chinese room can’t exist then. 
No, the reason that the Chinese room can’t exist is because a human brain can’t memorize a program of sufficient complexity to completely mimic a human brain.
…which isn’t a condition of the experiment.
GameStop, I.e. the video game store you haven’t been to for 15 years because nobody buys physical copies of video games from retail stores anymore, wants to buy eBay for $56 billion (which they don’t have) so they can use their brick-and-mortar video game stores for grading Pokemon cards or something like that, because nothing is real anymore and all of capitalism is just gambling with extra steps.
Sounds like time for another memestock rally.
During the dotcom boom of the early 2000s, eBay seemed to be among the biggest and most successful companies and yet now it’s the subject of a takeover attempt by a much smaller one.
I guess that story is actually saying Reddit’s stable investment geniuses will buy eBay.
This will end well.
This was totally my problem, I’m not listening while I take shitty notes.
I happened to watch the interview yesterday morning with CEO Ryan Cohen on Squawk Box. Andrew Ross Sorkin conducted the interview and flat-out asked him where the money is coming from. Cohen refused to give a direct answer, instead telling them to go to the website for details, and then telling Sorkin that he didn’t understand the question.
I didn’t rush out and buy GameStop stock. eBay’s stock jumped to a 52-week high at one point during the day.
It’s amazing what a great takeover currency your own wildly inflated stock can be. Now they just need to trigger another round of getting wildly inflated.