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Thousands of years of thinking about these issues, decades coming to hard grips with how little we understand, and LLMs drop like an atom bomb waking up every i
by ryanklee 4y ago
Thousands of years of thinking about these issues, decades coming to hard grips with how little we understand, and LLMs drop like an atom bomb waking up every idiot on the planet who has naive things to say about consciousness. What's the motivation to talk so loudly and confidently about things one knows nearly nothing about?
Edit: I regret using the word "idiot" above. Nothing against the author's intelligence. Poor choice of words on my part. Naively presumptuous is closer to the mark.
- arisAlexis 4y agoJust saw I wrote the same comment using the same storng wording. Sometimes it's warranted :)
- messe 4y agoWhat astounds me is the sheer arrogance of it. The assumption that only humans can be imbued with consciousness, because of... what, exactly? Self-reflection and the rejection of the scientific method?
- Kim_Bruning 4y agoI'm pretty sure there's many species with consciousness. Of course the discussion of consciousness in general is one big mess, imho. :-/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness
- ChatGTP 4y agoAnimals are conscious, this isn't even debatable. Point a weapon at an animal (for example, please don't really) and you'll immediately witness its self-awareness and some how even know that you're pointing a weapon at it.
- doryWalnut 4y ago[dead]
- frebord 4y agoI don't think the use of the word 'idiot' was great by itself, it should have been 'arrogant idiot' "This is a classic case of Scientism (The opinion that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.)" He more or less claims that consciousness is outside the realm of human understanding, but also then mentions the millennia of study by scholars about consciousness has found the real truth about consciousness.