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The problem of other minds is no reason to throw everything out the window. Humans are capable of being conscious of their reasoning processes; token-at-a-time
by wizzwizz4 2y ago
The problem of other minds is no reason to throw everything out the window. Humans are capable of being conscious of their reasoning processes; token-at-a-time predictive text models wired up as chatbots aren't capable of it. Your choice is between a possibly-mistaken, possibly-lying human, and a 100%-definitely incapable computer program.
You don't know either "for sure", but you don't know that the external world exists "for sure" either. It's an insight-free observation, and shouldn't be the focus of anyone's decision-making.
- ta8645 2y agoYou've made some interesting points, which are debatable, for sure. But you've failed to address the question being asked about "verifiability".
- vanviegen 2y agoWhen you ask an LLM to carefully reason step by step before arriving at its answer, that seems pretty much the same as conscious reasoning to me. Of course, when asked to justify a gut reaction after the fact, it will just come up with something that sounds plausible (and may or may not be true). Just like humans do.