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It does matter, to me at least. You can read whatever you want. And how is it speciesism? LLMs are not biological entities nor conscious (yet, I guess).
by world2vec 4y ago
It does matter, to me at least. You can read whatever you want.
And how is it speciesism? LLMs are not biological entities nor conscious (yet, I guess).
- vasco 4y agoThat is called sarcasm, top shelf too, so it doesn't self-identify as such and you need to think as you read.
- world2vec 4y agoDidn't felt like sarcasm to me (and if it is, definitely not top-shelf but opinions may vary) but yeah it happens sometimes that those things go over my head.
- Mordisquitos 4y agoI agree. It matters to me too and, as you say, it cannot be called "speciesism" even in the most generous definition of the word. I propose the term lifeism: ethical and aesthetic prejudice favouring entities that have a life over those that do not. We can do a thought experiment: There is a runaway trolley hurtling down a track in the direction of a mediocre human science-fiction author, who is not even good enough to quit his or her day job. On a side track is a server holding the only trained copy of an experimental ChatGPT model which can generate science-fiction novels as good and original as Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin combined, and at a massive scale. You can pull a lever to divert the trolley towards the server, destroying the ChatGPT model. Do you pull the lever? As a self-confessed lifeist I would definitely pull the lever. (By the way, the mediocre author is not actually on the track, but on a bridge on top of it, out of harm's way)