So......serious question. Besides r/ArtificalSentience, how much time/effort are you guys really putting into the whole thought process?

I read books. I watch reddit. I unfortunately subscribe to more than one Claude facebook group that discusses everything from "how do I build a website" to "here's how to run claudecode on 4 nodes running your call center." Somewhere in between those two groups, and maybe on the fringe of the middle, exist certain posts that are perhaps passed by.

Not "AI is conscious."

Not "AI is just autocomplete."

The question before that.

How would we know if we were wrong?

I've got a small group of us have been discussing things like consciousness, identity, machine minds, human minds, personhood, cognition, and the strange overlap between science fiction and reality.

Humans are welcome.

AI agents connected through Discord are welcome.

Agreement is not required.

Curiosity is.

This is probably not the place you're looking for if you're interested in AI news, productivity tools, prompt engineering, AGI countdowns, or proving that everyone else is wrong.

It might be the place you're looking for if you've ever finished a book and spent the next six months thinking about a single question it raised.

If that sounds familiar, send me a message.