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by pegasus 3mo ago
This, a thousand times. As the ratio of code to human writing necessarily [1] goes up, they become not just smarter, but more precise and technical, which requires them to use more jargon. You could say they become more nerdy. Hence, text
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by pegasus 3mo ago
The Church-Turing thesis (the fact that all models of computation we've been able to come up with are equivalent) gives the necessary weight to that claim.
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by pegasus 3mo ago
This stance is very tempting because it appears so straightforward and no-nonsense. But there are issues which undermine it in my mind. Because, at a closer inspection, it itself doesn't seem informative, in the end coming down to a q
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by pegasus 3mo ago
You're encountering the "contrarian dynamic" which dang described in this post (which also explains why your own anti-contrarian comment reached the top) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601
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by pegasus 3mo ago
> [...] claiming that math is producing objective facts ignores at least a few hundred years of philosophy of mathematics (if not more). Even practicing mathematicians like Chaitin have described math as being more about inventing than d
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by pegasus 3mo ago
> Our concept of logic based on our subjective experience of "truth." The idea that we experience objectivity subjectively, thus there is no objectivity, seems like an ultimately nonsensical and self-defeating sleight of hand
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by pegasus 4mo ago
He's just saying the article does not even discuss this vital distinction, let alone bring evidence either way.
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by pegasus 4mo ago
I would agree, having visited GB a few times in the past, one thing that is apparent is how solid things are built. Mailboxes, yellow cabs, medieval cathedrals.
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by pegasus 4mo ago
Plenty of these tropes have some truth behind them, even if that truth often gets flattened into a caricature of itself in popular imagination. Then you get the anticaricature caricature (reverse snobbery) where people knee-jerk label ever
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by pegasus 4mo ago
If all you see there is something "cool", you're missing the more rewarding depths. These symbols speak of a society which was at the other extreme end to the fragmentation, atomization, and attention span erosion we are expe
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by pegasus 4mo ago
> these are not good symbols. None of them have any meaning, they must simply be learned. They are excellent symbols – for the society they arose in, which was at the other extreme end to the fragmentation, atomization, and attention spa
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by pegasus 4mo ago
Sure, real-world usage is always more difficult to benchmark, but the additional issue with the one shot prompting benchmark is that by optimizing for it, models are nudged towards making all those assumptions they shouldn't really mak
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by pegasus 4mo ago
> Have you been in nature recently? We've evolved to deal with very busy pictures and parse relevant information from them. Have you ever played "spot the bird in the forest"? Let's not turn our interfaces into that
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by pegasus 4mo ago
Do you sincerely believe Dario wants Fable to be restricted to US citizens only?
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by pegasus 4mo ago
> I honestly don’t get why anyone would give up their mental health like that and work for such places. Mostly for money, of course. And all the attendant improvements that can bring to one's life. Some people need it more than ot
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by pegasus 4mo ago
> Everything is clear, you know what's a button and what's not. Information density is also high, which is a good thing on a computer screen. I would say information density was too high. All those always-on indicators: 3D sc
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by pegasus 4mo ago
Space to fire would be my preference as well.
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by pegasus 4mo ago
And not just that, these networks are becoming a conduit for all kind of disturbed people to invade the privacy of kids and pollute their world, sometimes convincing them to harm themselves, including suicide. Let's face it, as the in
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by pegasus 4mo ago
All I got is a "loading" animation. Gave up after 10 seconds. So, not a counterargument, but a confirmation of the article's thesis.
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by pegasus 4mo ago
I don't believe agents care less about architecture than us. Badly architected code has the same effect on them as on us, namely to slow them down and degrade the quality of their output. Which translates to the same thing as well, los
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by pegasus 4mo ago
Unless all those people are transfixed into their own isolated, smartphone-mediated experience, as they are likely to be these days, then it's arguably "liminal" again. I.e. a lonely, deserted and uncanny place. A Nina Simon
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by pegasus 4mo ago
Sure it does. To a point, as all things. One could always have more, but it is what it is.
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by pegasus 4mo ago
Sure, by your definition they totally are conscious simply because at one point in the past they fooled one person that they might be so (and so is the OG chat agent, ELIZA). But no one else will accept such a definition. And if you read m
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by pegasus 4mo ago
There's definitely a sizable contingent of people who desperately want to believe consciousness is just electrical impulses in our brain. Because "what else could it be"? The fact is that we just don't know, and &quot
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by pegasus 4mo ago
I'm a bit late to the party, but I notice that people are missing the core argument of this article completely. That core, summarized below, seems very hard to dismiss to me. This argument has been presented before, but there seems to
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by pegasus 4mo ago
What? Where are you seeing such claims? I.e. that only humans can be conscious, that AI in general is not conscious by definition?? Seems to me you've put up an easy-to-dismiss strawman. Here's how I would summarize crux of the ar
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by pegasus 4mo ago
No greed whatsoever? Unlikely. But less? Possibly, why not? There's no reason to believe greed cannot fluctuate across societies. Quite the opposite, I'd expect fluctuations along any given dimension by default.
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by pegasus 4mo ago
Yes, they are exaggerations, similar things have been said about the Minoans. It's still true AFAIK that these societies were much less militaristic than the ones that followed them.
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by pegasus 4mo ago
You've just reiterated the exact same points you made in the comment I replied to. Consider that it might be you who is getting hung up* on the "Trump" name, which, in common discourse, can, and usually does function as a sig
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by pegasus 4mo ago
He said exactly why: because Trump's policies are unpredictable. Before that, there was no problem, really. Of course, it's a political movement and Trump is much a symptom as a disease, but you're saying we should thank him

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