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In what way is this argument any more productive than showing up to Pluto with a plucked chicken and yelling "BEHOLD! A MAN!"? We can make all kinds of navel-g
by hnbad 3y ago
In what way is this argument any more productive than showing up to Pluto with a plucked chicken and yelling "BEHOLD! A MAN!"?
We can make all kinds of navel-gazing arguments about why LLMs and humans are identical but at the end of the day you'll go home and poop and the LLM will blissfully idle on a forgotten AWS compute instance burning a hole into someone's pocket and any idiot can see that you two are not the same in any sense.
Just because onthologies are leaky and fuzzy when applied to real world that doesn't mean there aren't tangible differences between things that are clearly different. I can construct a semantic argument for why deleting an LLM is akin to murder (and use it to either reason that deleting an LLM should be punished with the death penalty or that it should be okay to kill random people who annoy me) but that won't impress the judge or jury unless I'm trying to make a case for criminal insanity.
Making a machine do things humans can do but faster/cheaper/more has tangibly different implications than letting only humans do it. It should be treated differently for the same reasons that just because a public water fountain is free to use that doesn't mean you can put a hose on it and use it to water your lawn.
- roenxi 3y agoI'd be doing a lot better than expected if my arguments have the sort of historical pull that Diogenes' had. And he made a point accurately - they had to change the definition and he showed their approach up as not being able to accurately identify a man without making hilarious mistakes along the way.