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OK, sounds easy enough.

But the Qualia demo makes me question my instincts.

A screenshot of the game Qualia shows a robot hand and human hand touching pointer fingers.

Its CRT glows greenish and asks me the first misleading question: Is this a picture of a bicycle?

But also, no, it’s not a photo of a physical bicycle.

Participant 2 determines “yes” to the question, which I find strange.

A screenshot shows a robot hand hovering over unreadable text.

But their seemingly willful defiance to subsequent questions feels completely human to me.

Then I finally notice the name of the test I’ve been working on the Applied Manipulation Turing study.

Are the two participants' answers being manipulated?

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Qualia definitely feels like it could be part of Severance,Apple TV Pluss most-watched show, right?

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