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tolerance 2 hours ago

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/atheist

As opposed to an "AI atheist" that Doctorow refers to in the article.

omnicognate an hour ago | parent [-]

I see. I'm a real atheist then, and Richard Dawkins does not speak for me.

tolerance 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

And in what ways do you differ on this matter?

omnicognate 9 minutes ago | parent [-]

The obvious way: I think humans (and many animals) are conscious, that LLMs are not and that the difference matters. None of that has anything to do with atheism, on which topic my general view of Dawkins is, to paraphrase The Dude, "you're not wrong, Richard, you're just an asshole".