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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
I don't think we're using the term semantic in the same way. I mean "relating to meaning in language."
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
I want to apologize for this joke in advance. It had to be done. We could take a page from Trump’s book and call them “Beautiful” LLMs. Then we’d have “Big Beautiful LLMs” or just “BBLs” for short. Surely that wouldn’t cause any confusion w
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
There are absolutely reasons that we cannot capture the entirety—or even a proper image—of human cognition in semantic space. Cognition is not purely semantic. It is dynamic, embodied, socially distributed, culturally extended, and consciou
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Text describes semantic space. Not everything maps to semantic space losslessly.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
A toddler dying from cancer is horrible. It's not evil.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Your brain is still physically continuous and dynamic. ANNs are not, there are distinct frames.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
I'm not a "believer" in IIT. But I think its an incredible idea and taking the time to really understand what Tononi et al are proposing is a mind-expanding experience. It may not explain consciousness but it does make you th
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
The cognitive scientist John Vervaeke describes the "4 Ps of Knowing", moving from propositional, up through procedural, perspectival, and participatory. Most of our thought is propositional: we see a thing, know the thing, and mo
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
That would be because I linked the wrong article. The original is here, different journal: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Close! Emergence/emanation is particular to Neoplatonism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Better let Nature know their Peer Review committee screwed up then!
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
You're welcome to read the paper. Tonini's work is well-known within CogSci and its not quackery by any stretch.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Agreed, I was just commenting that one can measure "penciliness". I see a lot of pedantic arguments against measurement by proxy, as if every single measurement we do wasn't by proxy.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
That's not true, the authors of IIT [1] propose a number of experiments that would support or deny the underlying theory. To my knowledge, those experiments haven't shown much support. But there are aspects of it that are absolute
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
I don't think its a question of whether there is an essential reality or not, but rather whether we have access to essential reality. Donald Hoffman makes a strong game theoretical argument for how natural selection chooses effective
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Because our entire perception system functions as a mediation between the teleological affordances an object presents at a given level of organization/analysis and how those affordances relate to our motivational system's current
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Welp, that does it. Pack it up, Cognitive Scientists: we've solved the hard problem of consciousness right here on HN. What you're describing is what's been proposed by Giulio Tonini as "Integrated Information Theory&quo
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
The mind is not a material phenomenon, in the same way that a video game is not a computational one. The emergent experience exists at the level into which it emerges. It's constructed at a lower level of organization, but not decompos
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
You can measure "pencilness" a number of ways depending on how you operationalize the term. It could be a measure of how well it achieves the function of a pencil, how well it matches the collective understanding of the form of a
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
All of those examples are emergence "into". The snowflake emerges into the mathematical patterns emanating downward. The termite cathedral emerges into the architectural context of the observer. Without emanating structure, there
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Because that's the same as giving up and saying "we don't understand." What is mind emerging into ? When a video game experience emerges from the combination of processing, display, sound, and controller input, it eme
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Something, something, anecdotes and data. I've had three of them. All perfect. So I'm at least thrice as right as you are on the topic, I guess. But in all seriousness: I don't doubt that there are Teslas out there with issue
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Which is fine, but that's a totally different argument than the idea that they're "bad cars". Like I said, Elon's viability as leader is absolutely up for question. But that has nothing to do with the quality of the
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Unless your commute is long, charging overnight on a standard outlet is more than sufficient. We have two EVs—one for my daily ~50 mile round trip commute while the other stays in the neighborhood most the time—and we never have to charge o
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
My wife and I did this. Seemed like an elegant solution to the problem.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
I think you mean the typical cherry picking that institutions and organizations do, both religious and secular.
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A real test here would be to give it to my friend from Mendoza, Argentina. I'm bilingual and still can't understand him. I'm not even sure half the things he says are actual words.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Citation needed. People connect through story. The stories that connect the most people over the greatest timescales have all been myths—or developed into them over generations. Augustus Caesar commissioned the Aeneid for this exact reason:
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
This is wild conjecture based on performance in a berry-picking game.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
In the short-term, yes. But over a lifetime, medication has massive health downsides, and fewer and fewer psychological upsides over time.

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