Self, Consciousness, AI

‘Were there a species of creatures intermingled with men, which

though rational, were possessed of such inferior strength, both of body

and mind, that they were incapable of all resistance, and could never,

upon the highest provocation, make us feel the effects of their

resentment; the necessary consequence, I think, is that we should be

bound by the la

Ok, so the rumor about OpenAI Orion is that it's "100 times more powerful than GPT-4".

Let's forget that this is ill-defined, and a rumor. It implies gruesomely superhuman generalist ability.

The tech media describes this potentiality like so:

"The model’s development builds on lessons from OpenAI’s past efforts to make interactions with AI more relia

Human religion begins with our ability to populate our minds with imagined other minds.

Storr, The Science of Storytelling