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Meta FAIR's François Fleuret jokes about building a bot to strike people with a trout over consciousness claims

The joke proposal playfully targeted researcher Geoffrey Hinton.

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François Fleuret@francoisfleuret#330inAI

Can someone make a bot that scans the web and every time someone starts to explain their absolute belief in some answer to the hard problem, it slaps them with a trout?

Until then I'll do it myself.

*francoisfleuret slaps Geoffrey Hinton around a bit with a large trout*

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kache@yacineMTB

@francoisfleuret The trout is conscious. If it is dead, it is also conscious

François Fleuret@francoisfleuret

Can someone make a bot that scans the web and every time someone starts to explain their absolute belief in some answer to the hard problem, it slaps them with a trout?

Until then I'll do it myself.

*francoisfleuret slaps Geoffrey Hinton around a bit with a large trout*

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