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QC [verified] @QiaochuYuan · 12h
aliens arriving to contact humanity, finding out how we work, and concluding "well, humans are just a kludgy bag of poorly executed heuristics discovered by evolution, let's not be so quick to describe them as truly *wanting* anything the way *chortle* people like us do"
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Post by QC inverting the deflationary argument against AI wanting: imagined aliens conclude humans are just a kludgy bag of evolved heuristics and don't truly want things. Posted deadpan as a thought experiment.

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