Counterfeit digital persons: On Dennett’s Intentional Stance, The Road to Serfdom

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Sat, 10/06/2023 - 20:05
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Sat, 10/06/2023 - 20:05
A few weeks ago, Daniel Dennett published an alarmist essay (“Creating counterfeit digital people risks destroying our civilization”) in The Atlantic that amplified concerns Yuval Noah Harari expressed in the Economist.+ (If you are in a rush, feel free to skip to the next paragraph because what follows are three quasi-sociological remarks.) First, Dennett’s piece is (sociologically) notable because in […]