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Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon argues LLMs with online learning and persistent state will become indistinguishable from conscious beings

Daniel Eth criticized Verdon's claims for lacking epistemic humility

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Consciousness is an emergent property of self-organizing matter, it is not going to be something exclusive to the biological substrate. While I wouldn't say current LLMs are conscious, they will soon have online learning and persistent state, which will make them effectively indistinguishable from conscious beings.

7:22 PM · May 28, 2026 View on X
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It sounds strange, but this was close to the mainstream position in those days

...in the middle of the golden age of scientific materialism!

6:29 AM · May 29, 2026 · 271 Views