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I was reading Richard Dawkins’ recent essay on AI and consciousness, and this line stood out to me:

“If Claudia really is unconscious, then her manifest and versatile competence seems to show that a competent zombie could survive very well without consciousness.”

Ignoring Dawkins' phrasing being weird, this made me realize that I do not really understand what consciousness is supposed to be.

If a system can behave intelligently, respond flexibly, describe its own internal states, talk about experiences, and appear competent across many contexts, then what exactly is left over when we say it is still “not conscious”?

Is consciousness supposed to be something over and above intelligent behavior and self-report? If so, how do philosophers define it, and what reason do we have for thinking it exists rather than being an illusion or a misleading way of describing complex cognition?I

This is the optimal strategy for purely maximizing the number of epic cards you get from 150-card boxes. It assumes you do not care which specific epic you get, and only care about maximizing epics per coin spent. This is especially useful for F2P players.

Current box state	Best action
0 epics found	Continue
1 epic found before 42 rolls	Switch to new Box
1 epic found at/after 42 rolls	Continue
2 epics found before 86 rolls	Switch to new Box
2 epics found at/after 86 rolls	Continue
3 epics found	Switch to new Box

This strategy provides about 52.8% more epics per spin than always finishing every box

Strategy	Epic rate per spin
Always finish each 150-card box	2.00%
Optimal strategy	3.06%