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Your socio-emotional capabilities are illusory. They are a product of how craving for social acceptance "hacks" your brain and exploits the hundreds of thousand
by stuartjohnson12 1y ago
Your socio-emotional capabilities are illusory. They are a product of how craving for social acceptance "hacks" your brain and exploits the hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of our equipment as a social species.
- skeezyboy 1y agoits a next word predictor. if youve been convinced it has a brain, i have some magic beans youd be interested in
- ACCount37 1y agoYou're saying "next word predictor" as if it's some kind of gotcha. You're typing on a keyboard, which means you're nothing but a "next keypress predictor". This says very little about how intelligent are you.
- skeezyboy 1y agonot my only trick is it though. human brain engages in all sorts of cognitive enterprises, language formation being just one of them. LLMS are essentially statistical predictors - which is indeed part of what a human brain does but only a small slither of its abilities.
- stuartjohnson12 1y agoand if it is a sufficiently accurate next word predictor then it may accurately predict what an agent with socio-emotional skills would use as their next word in which case it will have exhibited socio-emotional skill.
- empath75 1y agoConsider whether it is possible to complete sentences about the world coherently in a human like way without knowing or thinking about the world.
- cwmoore 1y agoPracticing social skills is often disillusioning. Marvin, the sad robot, offers a prediction after autocompleting Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android