David Chalmers

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David Chalmers is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 16, 2025 and November 20, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “starting on page 289 of David Chalmers’ The Conscious Mind”; “leading philosopher of consciousness David Chalmers”. It most often appears alongside AI consciousness, AlphaGo, Anthropic.

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• Category: People
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: June 16, 2025
• Last seen: November 20, 2025

Appears In

• Open Thread 386
• The New AI Consciousness Paper

Related Pages

• • AI consciousness (1 shared issues)
• • AlphaGo (1 shared issues)
• • Anthropic (1 shared issues)
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• • Claude Bliss Attractor (1 shared issues)
• • Erik Hoel (1 shared issues)
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• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-sadly-porn/comment/5114457
• • https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.neonarrative.us/p/an-interview-with-scott-alexander
• • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Open Thread 386

June 16, 2025 · Original source

1: Thanks to everyone who commented on P-Zombies Would Report Qualia. Although as usual most of your attempts to link it to other philosophical writings were vague and not very relevant, a correspondent was eventually able to find a very similar argument starting on page 289 of David Chalmers’ The Conscious Mind (which I had not previously read). Thanks to Professor Chalmers for not getting upset about this unintentional duplication of his work. And if you think you have a more original insight about consciousness, Erik Hoel highlights a $50,000 consciousness essay contest.

Inline links: P-Zombies Would Report Qualia, The Conscious Mind, a $50,000 consciousness essay contest

The New AI Consciousness Paper

November 20, 2025 · Original source

But a rare bright spot has appeared: a seminal paper published earlier this month in Trends In Cognitive Science, Identifying Indicators Of Consciousness In AI Systems. Authors include Turing-Award-winning AI researcher Yoshua Bengio, leading philosopher of consciousness David Chalmers, and even a few members of our conspiracy. If any AI consciousness research can rise to the level of merely awful, surely we will find it here.

Inline links: Identifying Indicators Of Consciousness In AI Systems

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