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https://medium.com/@blaisea/do-large-language-models-understand-us-6f881d6d8e75 Very interesting article by the lead ai researcher at Google

I just read the "interview" again. If real, it is absolutely stunning.

What I want to know is, how many of those articles have been submitted to journals, unedited? If you could scan for some telltale signature, how many ...

Oh, you don't believe consciousness originates in the brain? You don't believe the behaviors I mentioned are correlative at all with consciousness? I ...

I'm not interested in this pedantic nitpicking and hand waving. What is relevant is that we are similar in the ways we believe are causative and corre...

You don't need to make any such assumptions. It is just statistics. Identical objects have a 100% chance of sharing every one of their property. Objec...

One human at least is known to be sentient: ourselves. Other humans are very likely sentient, being very like us. Just as LaMDA is very likely insenti...

I took the day off, went to the beach, and finished mine. I now have a finely honed wordbaby poised to sweep the polls.

It is not a category error, the debate is whether or not the machine belongs to the sentient category (not the human category).

Nope. We know of no human who claims to be sentient and is known not to be. Every software until now that claims to be sentient, we know it not to be.

I think we have some grounds: it is trivially easy to produce a program that claims itself to be sentient: Print(I am a sentient program"); It is equa...

It's interesting in that it is binary logic framed as an appeal to non binary logic: everyone is selfish to a degree, therefore everyone is either sel...

Now you're doing it

Any chance of an extension? Maybe until the end of the month?

I think you demonstrate that it *is* a technical question. The questions must be, what processes give rise to consciousness? and then, does the softwa...

No need to specify. All that matters is that they are overwhelmingly similar. This is ultimately a probabilistic argument

And the best reply to this is that Turing machines can instantiate any informational process, and consciousness is an informational process.

The best argument against the sentience of software is that Turing Machines by their nature cannot instantiate any process, they can only simulate it....

Sentience is a function of the brain. Similar organisms have similar brain function. Therefore brain functions exhibited by one organism likely occur ...

This is my semi expert opinion as a software engineer. Ai is not my thing, so only semi. Whatever the challenges of getting it to talk to itself, they...

Because it is not necessarily easy, but it is downright trivial compared to passing the Turing test with flying colors, which they have done. That is ...

Then, according to you, consciousness is basically achieved. As I said, it is a small step from what they have accomplished already to having the prog...

The thing is, they've already done the hard parts, they are just one "simple" step away from doing this, if they haven't already done so: simply have ...

I didn't participate in 2, but I think I will in this one. I'm just now starting to look through the stories. Where is the discussion and poll for 2?

Historically child rearing was collective in the community. Maybe not for every polytheistic ancient culture, but these were historically nearer to hu...

I suggest that instead of facing the falsity of parental "gods", the religious invent new ones to take their place. Either the content of religions ar...

Not put on a pedestal. However, they were the center of my universe, to a degree that was strongerthe younger I was. Forget the emotional side. Factua...

Our inaction speaks to our despair. We face an existential threat the likes of which humanity has never experienced, and we avert our gaze. What is th...

It's a crisis, which is fearful, but at the same time you get to experience the universe stripped of false gods, which is exhilarating.

Which part doesn't ring true? If it's the religion, of course this is totally speculation. But if it's the godlike elemental primacy of parents in ear...

Which projects? The ones mentioned in the op are precisely the kind of changes we need to make things less bad. But they aren't perfect solutions, the...

I understand, that's what I meant. And it may not be possible even with endless time. The thing is, we are already at the despair. And so we don't try...

The thing is, deviance is not a thing. It is not something you whisk away with a sleight of hand. Deviance is a stance, and something inherently non-o...

"Because evolution!" is simply a non-sequitur. Suppose we discover an animal which levitates. "How does it levitate?", we might ask. "Because evolutio...

Not a quibble. QAnon is intersubjective, but I don't think anyone here would label it objective. The fact that a belief is intersubjective (many fools...

Either the state will regulate the economy, or the economy will regulate the state. These are your choices

Uh huh.

When you drop an apple, you don't see it fall in a book. These Books just try to tell the story of what happens in the world.

We find them in the physical world. Physics books try to articulate them.

What do you guys think of the escalation of nuclear threats from Russia? Initially, Russia must have known it faced military calamity if other nations...

no

Who can say. But it is fallacious to argue they must come from a lawmaker, because they are laws.

You are conflating legal "laws" with physical "laws".

Says the kinds of contradictions pointed out in the op.

If you demonstrate this then you demonstrate logically and conclusively that God does not exist. Not easily done. But you can demonstrate quite easily...

Endless blather, blah blah blah blah blah, when the solution is so simple: omnipotence is an incoherent concept.

This is true, but it is not problematic, as far as JTB is concerned. Different people will in fact disagree on what is knowledge, due to disagreements...

Really, these don't seem particularly uninterpretable. "I know that I know X" conveys either unordinary confidence (after all, knowledge is a claim, b...

Suppose we conclude the external world is illusory. Berkeley was right, esse est percepi. Would Searle then be obligated to re-write his theory of spe...

I don't think so. Whatever your theoretical model of what geometric truths are, that is independent of the speech act being performed. Geometry is tau...