m_Anachronism

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   by m_Anachronism 9mo ago

   Ha - I used Claude to help organize and edit it, yeah. Didn't see much point in pretending otherwise. The irony isn't lost on me, but I'm not arguing these tools aren't useful, just that we should call them what they are
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   by m_Anachronism 9mo ago

   Fair pushback - you're right that strict dictionary definitions are broader. I probably should've been more precise there. My point is more about how the term is used in the actual fields studying it (cogsci, neuroscience, etc.),
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   by m_Anachronism 9mo ago

   God, yes. The 'you know what I mean' thing drives me crazy because no, I actually don't think they do know what they mean anymore. I've watched people go from using it as shorthand to genuinely asking ChatGPT how it&#x27
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   by m_Anachronism 9mo ago

   "Yeah that's exactly the point - when you're actually working with these models on the infrastructure side, the whole 'intelligence' narrative falls away pretty fast. It's just tensor operations at scale. Curio
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   Why AI Doesn't Think: We Need to Stop Calling It "Cognition"(docs.google.com)

   19 points by m_Anachronism 9mo ago|18 comments