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Look this is the only time I'll engage in this sort of discussion on HN[1], but first Donald Knuth is a real Human and it's extremely weird to position world cl
by krainboltgreene 3y ago
Look this is the only time I'll engage in this sort of discussion on HN[1], but first Donald Knuth is a real Human and it's extremely weird to position world class experts as something otherworldly. Second, suppose you got what you wished for (you used the "us" pronoun), is that not a sentient mind that you're forcing to do your labour? Does that not raise a ton of red flags in your ethics?
[1] normally I find HN discussions about what if chatGPT is human or "humans are just autocompletes" to be highschool-level scifi and cringe respectively
- hilux 3y agoI don't understand your objection about Don Knuth. I'm well aware who he is. My point is that I don't have access to that kind of insightful human helper. So I "settle" for ChatGPT. And by "us" I mean "those of us who choose to use ChatGPT," and not that I was forcing you to use ChatGPT. It's true, I don't morally object to asking ChatGPT to "do my labour." It raises no red flag for me. (Okay, there's the IP red-flag about how ChatGPT was trained, but I don't think that's what you mean.)
- mr_toad 3y ago> is that not a sentient mind that you're forcing to do your labour? Does that not raise a ton of red flags in your ethics? Maybe and maybe not. Being sentient or even sapient doesn’t mean it has human emotions, feelings or motivations. You have to be very careful when ascribing naturally evolved emotions and motivations to something that is not a naturally evolved intellect.
- creer 3y agoDoes it need "human emotions, feelings etc" to "deserve" protection and status? Human society answered no a long time ago. But still it will be interesting to see what protections are granted to entities that are unarguably also machines.