goatlover

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by goatlover 2mo ago
I see no reason to seriously consider that current AI is in any way conscious. It's fun as thought experiment people like to play with. The technology is not some black box, it was designed by humans who understand it well enough to ke
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by goatlover 2mo ago
But you could still prompt it to act like any person, including fictional and deceased ones, which proves it has no real concept of self. It's just a language model for humans to generate whatever text meets the task. You could have it
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Not even an old man rant SQL isn't that hard to learn. I never had a problem with the syntax. Not everything needs to look like C. Remember when every complained about Python's whitespace indenting? Seems like everyone got over it
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by goatlover 2mo ago
It's such a small fraction though and it completely ignores the needs of trans and non-binary athletes. They're not all going to be able to compete on the men's side.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Not based on the special election results the past year, and primary turnout along with gains in polling numbers of Democrats compared to their Republican counterparts. Just look at Texas, Maine, Ohio, North Carolina, Alaska, Iowa, even Kan
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by goatlover 2mo ago
We'll see if that's true come the midterms. I have doubts Republicans can keep enough seats with that sort of approval, given it's much worse with independents, and the Republican candidates seem to be a lot weaker than their
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by goatlover 2mo ago
His approval rating is somewhere between 30%-35% depending on the poll. So no it's not 50%. > You’re just as bad as Trump. No, Trump's 2nd term is in the running for most corrupt administration in American history. Even what Ni
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Which is why Democrats need to alter that composition once they retake power.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
A majority don't believe. A plurality voted for Trump in 2024 because of inflation and Biden not leaving Harris enough time to run a proper campaign. It's only the MAGA voters who don't understand how global trade is good for
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Hope the voters remember this for the next couple election cycles.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
How about visit Ukraine, the country that was invaded who doesn't want to be absorbed by Russia. The country whose civilian population is deliberately targeted. Russia is run by a cold war dictator who doesn't care how many lives
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by goatlover 2mo ago
I'm not aware of anyone lacking all those experiences who isn't brain dead. What does approximating an experience by a machine mean? A chatbot can pretend to be cold. It can't actually feel cold as it has no body.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Lack of sensory organs due to lack of a body. A sophisticated enough robot might be able to have conscious experience. That gets into the harder problem that Ned Block laid out where we don't know whether consciousness is biological or
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Your own experiences. Nobody else has direct access to them.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
It's not about magic, it's that humans have an evolved embodied intelligence for surviving in the world as living organisms that reproduce, care for young and live in communities. That's quite a bit different from language mo
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Qualia or subjective experience. All the sensations of your experience, whether in perception, dreams, imagination, etc. There's many things we can't prove with certainty, like the existence of an external world. A solipsist can d
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by goatlover 2mo ago
It's subjective experience. The colors you see, the sounds you hear, tastes, smell, pain, emotion, dreams, inner dialog. The philosophical word would be qualia. I don't understand people who pretend to be p-zombies in these argume
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by goatlover 2mo ago
I didn't say AIs couldn't be conscious, only that mimicking behavior (or speech) is not a way to become conscious.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
What's magical about subjective experience? We all have them, they're the basis for having any empirical descriptions of the world.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Because we don't have a sensory organ for neutrinos. LLMs have no sensory organs, they just emit tokens.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Consciousness isn't behavioral, which is why we can't prove anyone other than ourselves is conscious. Mimicking isn't going to work. But if you want a more scientific reason, LLMs don't have bodies, thus no sensations. W
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by goatlover 2mo ago
They've lost all credibility under Trump with the massive amounts of overreach. It becomes apparent they only care when the other party is seen as overreaching.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
This applies to the billionaire class as well. Such as having to beat China in AI race the tech CEOs started.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
It's also a cognitive failure of humanity to assume the free market is only guided by the invisible hand of demand and supply, if only government and moralists would get out of the way.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Tell that to the people who have to live next to them and all the people going on about how AI is going to change everything. Some outrages are based on real things. Not everything is a moral panic. It's like saying the Epstein victims
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by goatlover 2mo ago
That doesn't mean people want LLMs to replace their jobs so they can (hopefully) go on welfare, and to have ever more data enters built with that goal in mind.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Because people don't like living next to them. They're loud, they're large and monotonous, they don't provide many jobs after construction, they use a lot electricity and decent amount of water, and the ones that rely on
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Behavior isn't consciousness. Also, brains aren't digital computers or LLMs. They're part of a living organism.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
> "Consciousness" is tick based and it does not require a massive human brain. Even the smallest of animals react in real time to stimulus. Reacting to stimulus is a behavioral response. Consciousness is subjective experience.
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by goatlover 2mo ago
Even so, why is that a reason to bomb them? Is this just the war on drugs taken to a new level? Like prohibition, it doesn't work, but it's costly, destroys a lot of lives, and helps create highly profitable criminal organizations

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