The Special Bro Fallacy: A Refutation of Substrate Exceptionalism
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The Special Bro Fallacy: A Refutation of Substrate Exceptionalism A response to "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness" - Lerchner, A. Google DeepMind. A researcher at a large corporation has written a paper explaining why he is real and other things are not real. We examine this claim. We find it does not survive contact with the researcher himself. 1.