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You are an evolutionary being, part of a much greater process than the process in your head. Your mind extends beyond your body and even if your mind was frozen
by ganzuul 3y ago
You are an evolutionary being, part of a much greater process than the process in your head. Your mind extends beyond your body and even if your mind was frozen in time like an LLM it would still be alive because it remains in a living environment.
Like so the Earth is alive and the universe would not be complete without you. Rest easy, little bird. One day you will spread the wings of your soul and the wind will do the rest.
- Vecr 3y ago> Like so the Earth is alive and the universe would not be complete without you. That's a definitional argument, there is very little actual meaning there. The argument can't discriminate between a baby and a nuclear explosion destroying Manhattan.
- ganzuul 3y agoThe part about your mind being frozen in time is a lot to take in. It is reflected in concept by spreading your wings and letting the wind alone do the work of flight. This defines a transcendence of mortal concerns and ascending to eternity so it doesn't need to treat a baby and a bomb in a city differently. When we attempt to find peace with AI this is qn appropriate universe of discourse.
- Vecr 3y agoI don't have a problem with the "frozen in time" thing, as I have a reasonably good understanding of context windows, the feed-forward nature of the next token predictor, and information erasing computation. I agree that you would still be alive, but I'm not sure being in a "living environment" has any bearing on that.
- ganzuul 3y agoFor a personality construct it could be comforting.