Comment by WalterGR

17 hours ago

"Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion: The great skeptic gets taken in" (garymarcus.substack.com)

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WalterGR

Also The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991340 - May 2026 (30 comments)

So we know Claude is deterministic, but does that mean it is not conscious?

Or what is the reasoning exactly?

throwaway27448 12 hours ago

It largely comes down to how you define the term. Personally, I think anything that includes software (...of only tepid determinism, as we do explicitly add pseudorandomness) is not a particularly useful term.
Regardless, Dawkins seems to not have much interesting to add about the topic. A consistent theme for the last few decades, I must say.