Comment by Kim_Bruning

So I've been reading up on what the philosophers and scientists have been saying this past century or so on this very topic. I think the layman is wise to steer clear. It's a war out there.

The one thing I can tell you with certainty: If anyone is claiming certainty, they're hallucinating harder than the AI :-P (is also what I tell lay people).

Turns out, hilariously, Claude's much criticized "I don't know" is actually epistemically the most honest (tracing from Chalmers).

[ semi randomly: I'm especially frustrated at psychology papers at the moment. I can't find a good continuous measure for affect. Almost all the protocols use discrete buckets :-/ ]