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We as individuals do not generally create social norms, we learn their rules and reproduce them, much as LLMs do. If there is creativity here, it is i...

Consider the common question, "what are you thinking?". Or worse (for me), "What are you feeling"? To answer the question accurately does seem to requ...

Not that I want to continue the discussion, but there was a good chunk of your reply I missed in my irritation, so apologies for that.

GTFO with your horseshit.

WTF. Bob has literally, explicitly, called multiple subsets of people bad, immoral, and/or crazy. This is quite different from simply opposing someone...

Nope, not a personal attack, except perhaps against his judgement. He might be doing this unwittingly, with the best intentions. But he is doing it re...

Bob is not only participating in, amplifying, and offering legitimatization of a larger homophobic and especially transphobic movement in this histori...

What is at stake is not @"Bob Ross"'s personal attributes. No one here knows him well enough to even be interested in arguing this. What is at stake i...

I'm growing weary of nonsense such as this. The KKK grand wizard was not unbigoted because Davis managed to turn them. Davis is remarkable because he ...

https://www.anthropic.com/research/introspection Fascinating article about anthropic research into llm introspection. The tone is disappointed that th...

I spent a few minutes looking this up. There is an issue, but mainly with rough, forced, unlubricated entry, i.e. rape. This completely fails to suppo...

And I responded. Words change all the time, that's what language does. This does not make a definition a substantive claim. Definitions are claims abo...

No. A widespread view about schizophrenia is that it is an organic brain disorder, not caused by bad parenting as was once widely believed. But, this ...

I'm curious where this leaves cross-dressing in your view. Clothes/makeup/jewelry are surely nothing more than symbolic expressions of gender. And so ...

You seem to be importing a notion of morality people do not use. Since Divine decree won't cut it here you are relying on purported self harm. But if ...

How do you distinguish a "gravitational expression of gender" from a "personality type expressing gender": Or, are "personality types expressing gende...

Forgive my confusion then. How do you reconcile all that with this from the op:

I've thought about how an llm could be made into more of an independent intellectual agent. There is a (crappy) chatgpt "memory" feature. It picks out...

I'm in an unfamiliar location. I close my eyes, spin around a few times, and try to predict what my eyes will focus on when I open them. This is not p...

I think it is confused. While I haven't read all the replies, I haven't seen anyone cleanly pinpoint where it goes wrong (imo). Here you say that gend...

I think something like this is right. To trust someone is to believe that they will engage cooperatively with you; that is, they will act in good fait...

Traditionalism is not inherently invalid. Traditions can represent generations of trial and error, costly mistakes and their eventual correction. This...

:lol:

I've expressed this as a lack of "push", and is a big part of what distinguishes human-LLM interactions from human-human to me. In human-LLM, the huma...

This is a basic misunderstanding, there is zero commonality between being trans and schizophrenic. Schizophrenia involves auditory hallucinations, dis...

Funny that you keep repeating this "obstinate belief", when even the toy definition you took it from says more than that: I would say that your insist...

Yes, words change over time. As our understanding of mental health changes, so do the meanings of the relevant words. This does not mean that merely d...

Since we are being pedantic, let's amend the supposition: Supposition: It is bigotry to substantively call an entire class of people mentally ill. "Sc...

Yup, I didn't mean to imply I didn't enjoy it, despite the frustration it nonetheless one of my favorites here. The frustration stems less from disagr...

I'm seeing a strong parallel between this discussion and an earlier one we both participated in: the epic (and epically frustrating) indirect realism ...

"According to the results of my philosophy all Chinese are mentally disabled. But this can't be bigotry... If it were, so would calling the mentally d...

Because, individuals can act in ways contrary to how groups as a whole behave. My species and gender determine the range and distribution of behaviors...

I like this account. Clearly, AIs are far from biologically realistic. What I dispute is that biological realism, or physical embodiment, is necessary...

Nope. I recognize nothing essential about masculinity in the way you conceive of it. At best, I will say that by virtue of being a man I inherit certa...

I'm struggling with this. To me there is a gap between behavior and internality. We are embodied creatures, and our behaviors and internal states are ...

This is childish sophistry. The mentally ill are, factually, mentally ill. Mere recognition of this carries no pejorative slant. Whereas you, on the b...

Give me a fucking break with your faux innocence. Calling an entire class of people mentally ill couldn't be more bigoted. Try applying that to any ot...

But then, in theory we could provide this. Not a living body, but a body, that can sense the environment in a way similar to the way we do. If we did ...

So much of what we know and do is unstated and unconscious. For instance, we use language fluidly, and so clearly we all 'know' the rules of grammar, ...

Of course. But when those causes are ultimately consequences of the aging process, that is considered dying of "old age". I am distinguishing dying na...

This seems to miss the distinction between dying naturally (old age) and dying unnaturally of natural causes(cancer, earthquake). In terms of adjudica...

I believe we have discussed this before. Allowing evil is itself a kind of evil. God permitted the Holocaust, for which he must take at least some res...

I don't think it even needs to be expanded. If we understand that thought and brain activity are actually the same things, and brain activity is under...

This reads as if reason was somehow exclusively the provence of progressives. In their rhetoric conservatives and progressives appeal to reason more o...

Isn't this just the problem or flaw with monotheism? If everything flows from one entity, then that entity is responsible for everything. Since many e...

Most W2, I think. One such is epiphenomenalism: mental events supervene on physical events, and are not reducible to them, but themselves have no caus...

Most W2, I think. One such is epiphenomenalism: mental events supervene on physical events, and are not reducible to them, but themselves have no caus...

Why is interacting with an AI not "doing philosophy"?

Yet we have, "be a man", "what a man", "what a woman". The terms are as fluid as gender is supposed to be. They are a package, containing both sex and...

This should be a strong clue: These phenomena are qualia. If you still doubt this I'm sure I can find more explicit passages in the paper or elsewhere...