suddenlybananas

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by suddenlybananas 5d ago
Again, I don't think you understand the substance of the claim. Have you read the book? Mutations don't need to be single gene flips and I don't understand why you think Chomsky thinks that. He compares it to the evolution of
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by suddenlybananas 6d ago
I don't understand why you are hostile to me explaining the idea. In any case, you can read their book to see the arguments they use (which are not just assertions, anti-chomskyans just ignore or strawman everything he says). For examp
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by suddenlybananas 6d ago
You can't really know for sure, but the typical argument (c.f. Chomsky & Berwick) is there was an enormous explosion in "cultural" products then. Before then, we don't see figurative art, and after we see all sorts o
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by suddenlybananas 8d ago
What has Victor Taelin made which is any way comparable to Linus Torvalds? I'm not saying it's impossible to be a well-known expert with a shitty google scholar. I'm just not seeing any evidence at all in Taelin's case.
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by suddenlybananas 8d ago
He seems to have a big following on AI-hype twitter, I'll grant you that. It is interesting however, how you weren't familiar with him at all [1] 20 minutes before describing him as a well-known expert. [1] https://news
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by suddenlybananas 8d ago
>That is what makes Bend realistically 10x-100x faster than every alternative. Do you have benchmarks which show this?
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by suddenlybananas 8d ago
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZLnQcAsAAAAJ&hl=en This is not the google scholar of a well-known expert, I'm sorry.
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by suddenlybananas 8d ago
God forbid someone criticise Victor Taelin!
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by suddenlybananas 9d ago
Are you a psychopath? Genuinely? Since that is not why normal people give moral considerations to others.
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by suddenlybananas 9d ago
The log scale is awfully misleading, especially since money doesn't really work like that.
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by suddenlybananas 9d ago
That was a post hoc justification, there was a lot of slavery besides the transatlantic slave trade which did not rely on this. Even still, despite scientific racism, the claim was that they were inferior not that they lacked consciousness
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by suddenlybananas 9d ago
That's not really true. Slave owners were perfectly aware that slaves were humans.
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by suddenlybananas 9d ago
>de"human"izing Slave owners did it to people , not software. This comparison is just begging the question, as whether or not software is of moral weight comparable to humans is precisely what is at issue.
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by suddenlybananas 9d ago
This sounds like an argument for not giving them these abilities rather than any argument for giving them moral consideration.
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by suddenlybananas 9d ago
Do we owe moral consideration to toasters?
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by suddenlybananas 10d ago
If you change the most important detail of an argument, it may no longer be sound! Wow!
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by suddenlybananas 10d ago
We don't know anything about how consciousness works? Why couldn't there be a material fact about the biological substrate that is necessary for qualia? I don't see how that possibility makes you a crypto-dualist. If anything
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by suddenlybananas 10d ago
> Toasters are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. How do we know that? This bit is stated as if its obvious. Can anyone prove this?
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by suddenlybananas 10d ago
It's not really RSI if you are just using the AI as a tool to help make it better. It has to be doing it itself, no? Otherwise self-hosted compilers are RSI.
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by suddenlybananas 11d ago
It's called a joke, but surely you recognise that there's an enormous market for artisanal cheese?
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by suddenlybananas 11d ago
Not the best metaphor, artisan cheese is something highly sought after. Go to France, there's a lot better cheese than Kraft singles.
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by suddenlybananas 12d ago
I don't see how people being different from one another (uncontroversial, obvious basic fact) means that people have fundamentally different phenomenal experiences. You're conflating ability with experience when they are not the s
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by suddenlybananas 12d ago
I'm not denying there's a difference between the two groups, I'm denying that the difference is in phenomenal experience. If one group has a different way of describing their experience to others in general (e.g. perhaps beca
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by suddenlybananas 12d ago
Why would I be coping about anything?
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by suddenlybananas 12d ago
I'm familiar with these studies but I don't think you can assume that activity in the visual cortex is phenomenal experience. I'm sure there are differences in self-reported aphantasics and people who don't claim to be a
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by suddenlybananas 12d ago
I still think this is fundamentally about how difficult it is to describe qualia.
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by suddenlybananas 13d ago
Not only that, but this blogpost wasn't written by Tao.
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by suddenlybananas 13d ago
I think that anecdote is from the Anabasis by Xenophon and refers to Assyrian city of Nineveh. Babylon was still occupied during the time of Herodotus and was one of the biggest cities in the world at the time. (the book spends some time di
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by suddenlybananas 15d ago
Yeah who gives a shit about knowledge or understanding or insight.
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by suddenlybananas 15d ago
Why would they have had to put work in?

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