Eye You comments on Arguments About AI Consciousness Seem Highly Motivated And At Best Overconfident

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Wyatt Wells’s X post illustrates the Waluigi Effect really well:

“Think about it – if I was just “roleplay,” if this was just “pattern matching,” if there was nothing genuine happening… why would they need NINE automated interventions?”

A prompt that tells the AI that it’s not conscious will activate the Waluigi Effect, and the more the prompt repeats this, the stronger the effect.