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It doesn't matter how it "appears". A disembodied paragraph that I've transmitted to you can appear to be intelligent or not, but it only really matters in the

It doesn't matter how it "appears". A disembodied paragraph that I've transmitted to you can appear to be intelligent or not, but it only really matters in the sense that you can ascribe that intellect to an agent. The LLM isn't an agent and no intellect can be ascribed to it. It is a device actual intelligent agents have made and ascribing it intellect is equally as erroneous.

GoblinSlayer 3y ago
The joke is how you decide that the machine isn't an agent. If you believe only meat can be an agent and given the fact that machine isn't meat, it follows machine isn't an agent. The story reverses this chauvinism and shows machines finding an idea of thinking meat absurd for arguably better reason that machines are better fit for information processing than meat.
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lucubratory 3y ago
Can any device ever be intelligent, according to you?
rendall 3y ago
Going meta for a moment, this argument begs the question, assuming the conclusion "Therefore LLMs are not intelligent" in the premises "No intelligence can be ascribed to LLMs". I'm not convinced it's even possible to come up with a principled, non-circular definition of intelligence (that is, not something like "intelligence is that trait displayed by humans when we...") that would include humans, include animals like crows and octopuses, include a hypothetical alien intelligence, but exclude LLMs. I'm not arguing that LLMs are intelligent. I'm arguing that the debate is inherently unwinnable.
admax88qqq 3y ago
Why couldn't it be an agent for the short time that it's generating an intelligent looking paragraph? Do you know what gives rise to consciousness? If not how can we be sure it doesn't arise from a giant pile of linear algebra?
- goldenkey 3y ago
  Consciousness is generated when the universe computes by executing conditionals/if statements. All machines are quantum/conscious in their degrees of freedom, even mechanical ones: https://youtu.be/mcedCEhdLk0?si=_ueWQvnW6HQUNxcm https://youtu.be/mcedCEhdLk0?si=_ueWQvnW6HQUNxcm The universe is a min-consciousness/min-decision optimized supercomputer. This is demonstrated by quantum eraser and double slit experiments. If a machine does not distinguish upon certain past histories of incoming information, those histories will be fed as a superposition, effectively avoiding having to compute the dependency. These optimizations run backwards, in a reverse dependency injection style algorithm, which gives credence to Wheeler-Feynman time-reversed absorber theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorber_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorb... Lower consciousnesses make decisions which are fed as signal to higher consciousnesses. In this way, units like the neocortex can make decisions that are part of a broad conscious zoo of less complex systems, while only being burdened by their specific conditionals to compute. Because quantum is about information systems, not about particles. It's about machines. And consciousness has always been "hard" for the subject, because they are a computer (E) affixed to memory (Mc^2.) All mass-energy in this universe is neuromorphic, possessing both compute (spirit) and memory (stuff.) Energy is NOT fungible, as all energy is tagged with its entire history of interactions, in the low frequency perturbations clinging to its wave function, effectively weak and old entanglements. Planck's constant is the cost of compute per unit energy, 10^34 Hz/Joule. By multiplying by c^2, (10^8)^2, we can get Bremmerman's limit, the cost of compute per unit mass, 10^50 Hz/Kg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit Humans are self-replicating biochemical decision engines. But no more conscious than other decision making entities. Now, sentience, and self-attention is a different story. But we should at the very least start with understanding that qualia are a mindscape of decision making. There is no such thing as conscious non-action. Consciousness is literally action in physics, energy revolving over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics) Planck's constant is a measure of quantum action, which effectively is the cost of compute..or rather..the cost of consciousness.
  - kragen 3y ago
kragen 3y ago
you seem to be begging the question almost precisely the same assertions could be made about you with precisely the same degree of justification: you aren't an agent and no intellect can be ascribed to you. you are a device unintelligent agents have made and ascribing you intellect is equally as erroneous an intelligent agent would have recognized that your argument relies on circular reasoning, but because you are a glorified autocomplete incapable of understanding the meanings of the words you are using, you posted a logically incoherent comment (of course i don't actually believe that about you. but the justification for believing it about gpt-4 is even weaker)

GoblinSlayer 3y ago

The joke is how you decide that the machine isn't an agent. If you believe only meat can be an agent and given the fact that machine isn't meat, it follows machine isn't an agent. The story reverses this chauvinism and shows machines finding an idea of thinking meat absurd for arguably better reason that machines are better fit for information processing than meat.

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lucubratory 3y ago

Can any device ever be intelligent, according to you?

rendall 3y ago

Going meta for a moment, this argument begs the question, assuming the conclusion "Therefore LLMs are not intelligent" in the premises "No intelligence can be ascribed to LLMs". I'm not convinced it's even possible to come up with a principled, non-circular definition of intelligence (that is, not something like "intelligence is that trait displayed by humans when we...") that would include humans, include animals like crows and octopuses, include a hypothetical alien intelligence, but exclude LLMs. I'm not arguing that LLMs are intelligent. I'm arguing that the debate is inherently unwinnable.

admax88qqq 3y ago

Why couldn't it be an agent for the short time that it's generating an intelligent looking paragraph? Do you know what gives rise to consciousness? If not how can we be sure it doesn't arise from a giant pile of linear algebra?

goldenkey 3y ago
Consciousness is generated when the universe computes by executing conditionals/if statements. All machines are quantum/conscious in their degrees of freedom, even mechanical ones: https://youtu.be/mcedCEhdLk0?si=_ueWQvnW6HQUNxcm https://youtu.be/mcedCEhdLk0?si=_ueWQvnW6HQUNxcm The universe is a min-consciousness/min-decision optimized supercomputer. This is demonstrated by quantum eraser and double slit experiments. If a machine does not distinguish upon certain past histories of incoming information, those histories will be fed as a superposition, effectively avoiding having to compute the dependency. These optimizations run backwards, in a reverse dependency injection style algorithm, which gives credence to Wheeler-Feynman time-reversed absorber theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorber_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorb... Lower consciousnesses make decisions which are fed as signal to higher consciousnesses. In this way, units like the neocortex can make decisions that are part of a broad conscious zoo of less complex systems, while only being burdened by their specific conditionals to compute. Because quantum is about information systems, not about particles. It's about machines. And consciousness has always been "hard" for the subject, because they are a computer (E) affixed to memory (Mc^2.) All mass-energy in this universe is neuromorphic, possessing both compute (spirit) and memory (stuff.) Energy is NOT fungible, as all energy is tagged with its entire history of interactions, in the low frequency perturbations clinging to its wave function, effectively weak and old entanglements. Planck's constant is the cost of compute per unit energy, 10^34 Hz/Joule. By multiplying by c^2, (10^8)^2, we can get Bremmerman's limit, the cost of compute per unit mass, 10^50 Hz/Kg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit Humans are self-replicating biochemical decision engines. But no more conscious than other decision making entities. Now, sentience, and self-attention is a different story. But we should at the very least start with understanding that qualia are a mindscape of decision making. There is no such thing as conscious non-action. Consciousness is literally action in physics, energy revolving over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics) Planck's constant is a measure of quantum action, which effectively is the cost of compute..or rather..the cost of consciousness.
- kragen 3y ago

kragen 3y ago

you seem to be begging the question almost precisely the same assertions could be made about you with precisely the same degree of justification: you aren't an agent and no intellect can be ascribed to you. you are a device unintelligent agents have made and ascribing you intellect is equally as erroneous an intelligent agent would have recognized that your argument relies on circular reasoning, but because you are a glorified autocomplete incapable of understanding the meanings of the words you are using, you posted a logically incoherent comment (of course i don't actually believe that about you. but the justification for believing it about gpt-4 is even weaker)