20 August 2026 - what is it like

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Thomas Nagel

What is it like to be a bat? Well, most of world literature is devoted to the question of what it is like to be a human, and it's still a fraught question. We should probably start with a simpler one, like: What is it like to be an AI? At least it's easier to stick probes into its thoughts.

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