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What’s stopping people from also describing LLM systems with “qualia”?
by MichaelZuo 11mo ago
What’s stopping people from also describing LLM systems with “qualia”?
- soulofmischief 11mo agoEmpirical evidence, for one. And the existence of fine-tuning, which allows you to artificially influence how a model responds to questions. This means we can't just ask an LLM, "do you see red?" I can't really even ask you that. I just know that I see red, and that many other philosophers and scientists in the past seem to agree with my experience, and that it's a deep, deep discussion which only shallow spectators are currently drawing hard conclusions from.
- MichaelZuo 11mo agoAnd what if someone comes along and just calls it “qualia” anyways?
- soulofmischief 11mo agoI can't really help it if people run around calling things other things. Language evolves!
- MichaelZuo 11mo agoSo then your opinion is about as meaningful as theirs. I don’t see a way for any passing reader to decide conclusively.
- soulofmischief 11mo agoLanguage isn't meaningless just because it evolves. I literally cannot help it if people ignore history and start using words in new ways. Those who take precision seriously will adapt and adopt new words if needed.
- MichaelZuo 11mo agoThis doesn’t make sense, how did you get “meaningless” out of someone else disagreeing with you?
- soulofmischief 11mo agoYou said, "So then your opinion is about as meaningful as theirs", after I said I can't help it if people use words the wrong way and language evolves... I don't think this is worth continuing. Have a good day.
- MichaelZuo 10mo agoThis is just bizarre, you don’t think opinions can have a low but non zero meaning?