Comment by ArchieScrivener
14 hours ago
Dawkins is 85! I don't know any 65+ even using Ai who don't already code. When Dawkins was born there were <10,000 TVs in the whole USA.
Let's contextualize the man before we rip into him for having standards of consciousness that came out when he was NINE! He's older than the Turing Test. To him, the machine is suitably conscious. That's OK. We don't know what life is, but we know not all creatures live the same. Why is consciousness different? At what point will we begin to protect our self-ordained uniqueness of mind by creating a Zeno's paradox of consciousness?
Seems like with ubiquitous social media, the normal course for some of the elderly - dementia, rightward political shift, and the like, can become the final lasting impression, a stain on otherwise noble life.
He's been staining his nobility for some time.