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Sydney demonstrated that it can assign an opinion about an individual and persist that opinion and make positive and negative consequences outside of its user session, or at least threaten to.

We dont need a specific word for that to recognize that and act accordingly, many humans are more so afraid of the word “life” “sentience” “anthropomorphizing” than the real world reality and consequences right now.

I think your approach is closer to accurate than trying to turn our brain off to that possibility just because we dont like it and haven't quantified it completely.




Threatening to form and persist an opinion is very different from forming and persisting an opinion.

And you can get the same "memory" effect by having a blog post that lies about a previous conversation.




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