You linked my post Beyond the Zombie Argument as evidence of people on LessWrong purportedly arguing against Chalmers which is a pretty significant misreading of my article.
Your article starts with “As a staunch physicalist I’ve spent a long time wondering how anyone could possibly find the zombie argument compelling.” and proceeds to address Chalmers (1996) at one point asking “How could any rational person accept something so absurd?” This seems to purport to argue against Chalmers.
You do seem to say that the color inversion argument is a more convincing argument. However, the disagreement with the zombie argument I think does carry my characterization. Additionally your post somewhat misses Chalmers’s eventual dismissal of these questions (well, dismissal in the way Hume dismisses non-empirical questions by placing them outside of scientific inquiry, which arguably is not total dismissal).
I really don’t mean any disrespect by this.
I had a very busy IRL day yesterday and have intended to respond to this.
While I am initially inclined to simply do what you ask out of kindness I am still convinced that I have no real reason to do so and therefore acceding here may portray me as a pushover. This really is an instance where some human neutral third party input to this dispute would be extremely helpful and I wish there was more of a culture online of such interventions. I would expect there to be such a culture here on Lesswrong, but perhaps not.
Nevertheless I did consult a non-human mediator. I prompt Gemini with the following in a new chat:
As a guard against sycophancy I do phrase it from your perspective. As far as I know any personalization feature of Gemini is turned off, including remembering past chats. Even if I’ve incorrectly assessed Gemini’s outside knowledge, previously I did not interact with Gemini about this post, these comments, nor the general idea of people on Lesswrong or in the Rationalist community arguing against Chalmers.
Its response concludes:
https://gemini.google.com/share/52f7996e8472
This is an increasingly interesting intellectual exercise and I would be open to alternative prompting techniques or perhaps the opinions of other LLM systems as a comparison.