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> Interacting with non-sentient entities that mimic human identity can alter our perception of [human entities that might only mimic sentience]. The more I see
by yawpitch 2y ago
> Interacting with non-sentient entities that mimic human identity can alter our perception of [human entities that might only mimic sentience].
The more I see people investing in conversations with LLMs, the more I see people trying to outsource thinking and understanding to something which does neither.
- boesboes 2y agoI use LLMs as a kind of rubber duck and secretary i guess. As in, I’ll ramble about ideas and thoughts and let it analyze an provide feedback etc. I am not sure if it is causing brain rot to be honest. It does seems like it might make it harder to properly articulate thoughts if you do this to much maybe
- yawpitch 2y agoThe more time I spend studying the underlying structure of these things, the more I think that what they’re going to do isn’t so much rot brains as drive those brains towards accepting / preferring / privileging the statistical mean of boring. They can only ever regurgitate what past humans in past work were most likely to say, modulo a small stochastic simulation of surprise… over time they’ll add more of their own output to their training material, driving the output of humanity inexorably further and further towards uninteresting.