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Yes, I've experienced the sense that there's a person on the "other end" even when I have been perfectly aware that it's a bag of matrices. Brains just have peo
by roywiggins 6mo ago
Yes, I've experienced the sense that there's a person on the "other end" even when I have been perfectly aware that it's a bag of matrices. Brains just have people-detectors that operate below conscious awareness. We've been anthropomorphizing stuff as impersonal as the ocean for as long as there have been people, probably.
- Sharlin 6mo agoExactly. You only have to look at animistic religions that are all about anthropomorphizing stuff.
- insane_dreamer 6mo agoI once found myself reporting back the results of something to Claude the way I would to a human (“hey thanks your tip worked”) before catching myself to realize that it doesn’t care and it won’t learn from it (which would otherwise be a good reason).
- yarn_ 6mo agoHah, ya exactly. I say sorry to objects if I drop them or accidently whack them, and feel remorse. What hope do I have with an LLM who talks to me? (jk f those clankers ofc)
- cindyllm 6mo ago[dead]