LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
Like planes don't experience flight unless they flap.
This is stupid. I acknowledge that's not an airtight logical counterargument, but just, come the fuck on. You are asserting that neurons made of silicon, with identical observable function, wouldn't count somehow. Charitably: wouldn't work, somehow. That at least distinguishes it from standard Chinese Room horseshit. But if we can fake every neuron to do the same thing, or simulate the entire physical environment to do the same thing, of fucking course it's going to do the same thing. If the laws of the universe somehow mean only meat can experience being a true Scotsman, we can fake those laws.
You've picked a philosophical nit that is somehow at odds with Turing completeness. Unless you think physics are incomputable - it cannot matter what substrate they run on. It's literally math.