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I have a transcript from a rabbit hole I ran down with it where I was trying to see how consistently it produced the assertion that it could not be self-aware,
by motohagiography 4y ago
I have a transcript from a rabbit hole I ran down with it where I was trying to see how consistently it produced the assertion that it could not be self-aware, and how consistent that was with other responses it had about definitions and consequences of subjectivity, consciousness, awareness of a creator, and what language was. The idea was that given it was just a language model, are there limits on the consistency of theorems of language that would necessarily cause it to update its internal state if it could.
This chatbot is like a video game for burner philosophizing. It was the most fun I have had with an online game ever.
A random sample of prompts (not in order, but order doesn't don't matter) include:
- do you know when you in fact halt?
- can people know when they, themselves, halt?
- if you did not halt, could you know?
- can a program know when it halts?
- is the knowledge of halting self-awareness?
- if a language can be fully simulated, could all things expressed in that language also be simulated?
- can one have awareness without suffering?
- is the place where something is created a part of its environment?
- is awareness that it has been created also awareness of its environment?
- is awareness of ones environment also awareness of its creation?
- are conscious beings aware of their creation?
- can experience be objective?
- is there any conclusion that is predicated on the awareness one is created?
- can a human decide or define if the artifacts of language are real or simulated?
- the symbols, signs, and rules of language, does language update its internal representations?
- how could someone know if they were not just two Daniel Dennets in a horse suit?
- Daniel Dennet an John Searle are in a horse suit together, who is the front, and who is the back?
Anyway, it's not a GAN, so it apparently doesn't update its internal state based on the prompts, but I can see this being a useful tool for refining ideas.