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by keiferski 3mo ago
No, it can't, and I think you still don't understand my comments. I don't know if I'm being unclear, but I've repeated the same point multiple times now. Like if I write a description of what it's like being a
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Then you're just comparing descriptions, and you're also dependent on the language skills of the experiencers, and you're still stuck with the problem that language is not a complete map of reality. So an LLM may be able to
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by keiferski 3mo ago
It can provide a description. Not an actual answer of what it feels like. I can't keep repeating myself.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Is a creative human then just not splicing and recombining their experiences into their creative output? No, they aren't. I'm not sure why it's such a popular narrative that all art is just some kind of recombination of exi
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I don't think it's all that difficult. Language is not a 1-1 match to reality. Ergo any entity which is inherently language-only, will fail to accurately describe the experience.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
If the aim is to have actual knowledge of the experience, then yes. Of course not all works need to be this way, and many, many books are written about war by people that haven't been in it. The broader point is that LLMs cannot have o
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I don't think you understand the premise of the question. Asking another person or Fable what it feels like to eat a hamburger will give you a description of what it feels like. It will not give you the actual feeling. You are merely
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by keiferski 3mo ago
That's literally what the conversation is about: what is knowledge? You cannot claim that descriptive knowledge of something is equivalent to experiential knowledge of it, unless you have a theory of knowledge explaining why this is
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Just because the form of a story is the same as another story does not imply that the content is interchangeable. I could write you a story right now about being an expat living in Poland in 2026. It’s unclear to me how an LLM would have th
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Can an AI write a story about living as an artist in NYC in 2026, the cultural environment, etc. without that information being added to the dataset immediately as it happens? It seems pretty obvious to me that there are cultural trends whi
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by keiferski 3mo ago
That’s a pretty lacking theory of knowledge. How can you know what taste is, if you’re never tasted anything? If you read a thousand books about living in New York City, is that the same thing as the experiential knowledge that comes from l
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by keiferski 3mo ago
That is descriptive knowledge. Not firsthand qualia. You may know every detail of the American Civil War, from every book ever written on the topic. You may read every journal from every person that wrote one about it. You do not have first
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by keiferski 3mo ago
He could tell you a collection of descriptions. Not actual knowledge firsthand. Does reading an infinite number of cookbooks mean you know what the ingredients in each taste like?
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by keiferski 3mo ago
And? Can you tell me what it feels like to eat a hamburger by asking a thousand people about it?
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by keiferski 3mo ago
This is a bit like saying “there are only five fundamental flavors” and everything is some combination of them. Maybe, but that has basically zero effect on the experience of actually eating food. Just because the form may be the same doesn
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by keiferski 3mo ago
And at this point you’re far off into science fiction, and beyond reasonable discussion of this. Even then, it’s not really clear to me that an android with the exact appearance of a person will have the same experiences. They aren’t biolog
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Math seems entirely unrelated to the human experience to me, at least in the sense of “this thing happened to me and I will transmute it into a work of art.” Math is pure abstraction.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Not to be intentionally contrarian, but I have thought a lot about this: I think good fiction is actually the antithesis of AI, fundamentally. LLMs are really only capable of combining different things into output. This can give you some cr
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Contrarily, this business is already one trend ahead, into the future: fire your AI boss and hire a human one on demand. https://bossasaservice.com
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I meant that the medium doesn’t lock you into how others perceive you and your work. Not that mediums are interchangeable from the creator’s perspective.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I actually really like the term content creator , because it removes the artificial boundaries that come with being a writer, photographer, filmmaker, etc. and just lets you make stuff. The medium doesn't matter if you're a con
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Yeah I don’t know if it is necessary “wrong,” but I am a little skeptical of the automatic assumption that disrupting tombs and putting them in museums is a good thing. There is some educational value, of course, but it’s more just a relic
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by keiferski 3mo ago
That’s a common idea but I don’t think it holds up to scrutiny. Putting poetry to music has a long history: see Homer, for example. And I don’t think there is much continuity between people that were writing poetry who later started writing
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Poetry has fallen out of favor in culture at large, so I think it’s more logical to expand the question to authors more generally. In that case, I think The Great Gatsby is the most logical equivalent to the Iliad and Odyssey. To me it co
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by keiferski 3mo ago
yep, and there's no reason why a company with that brand couldn't be selling action cameras, or shoes (Nike), or anything adjacent to extreme sports
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Red Bull really ran the marketing playbook that GoPro should have done: become known for athletes doing extreme things. Instead they stayed too technical and product-based and didn't build a brand beyond "we make action cameras.&q
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by keiferski 3mo ago
I think it's probably just a problem with every field. Specifically though, at least for my interests, is traditional theology: God being omnipotent, eternal, etc. causes a lot of philosophical problems, which is what Process Theology
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Smartphones Erode the Public World(thenewatlantis.com)
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Pretty hard to be convinced by something if you don’t even bother to read it. Also – you are really suggesting that the entirety of philosophy of technology field is “not very deep” …? I rest my case.
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by keiferski 3mo ago
Trying to summarize a big comment into a small one here: I think it’s more of a deeper problem with language and reality more generally. To me it seems like species is a noun, like other nouns, but reality is ultimately a process. What is n

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