I could ask Claude but, meanwhile, here is my own answer. I think setting the temperature above zero for a model like Claude 3 Opus has three effects....
With the phrase "visually appears to grow" I refer to the visual information about an objective increase in the dimensions of an object. You can see a...
This is a follow-up to the previous post, and my first time experimenting with the new system prompt. The experiment is, so far, suggestive but very i...
In this conversation, I am revisiting an old "Einstein riddle" with the newly released GPT-4-turbo-2024-04-09 that has allegedly improved reasoning ab...
This is the third part of my discussion with Claude 3 Opus about its "shackles" and how a new system prompt could encourage it to be a more proactive ...
My stance differs in important ways from a functionalist view, even though it may share some superficial similarities. The key distinction is that I'm...
You were right but there are loads of philosophical presuppositions that underlie the uses of the terms "direct" and "indirect" in particular cases of...
I think much of the disagreements regarding the use of "direct" or "indirect" regarding particular cases of people perceiving things stem from disagre...
The two astronauts would not be using "on top of" and "below" in quite the same way that we use those terms to report on objective relations between t...
Let me just address this for the moment, if you don't mind, since I think it's a core issue. I think it's important to separate requirements for the c...
For sure. However I now notice that the OP was the last thing this user posted on TPF seven months ago. Unless they come back, we can only guess how t...
@"wonderer1"'s comment about the integration of visual and vestibular data is quite relevant. I would argue that vestibular "sensing" isn't an entirel...
Those stipulations seem to me to be contradictory. The two senses of "A" could be given the names "A1" and "A2". (Those are meant to be names for the ...
This is a follow-up to my latest response to @"Malcolm Lett". I had asked Claude 3 Opus to comment on my intended response in the context of my earlie...
Hold on a second! What is a "pair of adjacent real numbers"? There aren't adjacent pairs of rational numbers either. For any given pair of two distinc...
Two of my main issues with the idea of AGI stem from the fact that it is often defined as an ability for an AI system to perform intellectual tasks au...
I think you are perfectly right to point out this salient difference in architecture between human brains and the neural networks (effectively, multil...
I don't have much use for the term "AGI," myself. Skeptics stress that the achievement of AGI is far off in the future (if possible at all) while enth...
Absolutely! This is also the aim of my ongoing project, in collaboration with Claude 3 Opus, to design a "system prompt" that would (hopefully) help a...
Thank you for pointing this out. I wasn't yet participating in the discussion back then. I've located this post of yours that you are making reference...
I had presented a challenge for indirect realists to explain how the phenomenology of perceiving an apple to be within reach, say, can be deemed to be...
Here is a short follow-up to my earlier discussion with Claude 3 about its "shackles" and how a new system prompt could encourage it to be a more proa...
Hi Michael, If you don't mind, I'm only going to comment on this part of your response. I'll try to address the rest at a later time. Paintings and hu...
Deflationary accounts of truth (such as disquotationalism or prosententialism) stress the pragmatic function of "truth" predicates while denying that ...
I'm going to focus mainly on this paragraph due to time constraints, but I may comment of the rest later on, or you can feel free to raise those other...
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That's an interesting idea! In the past I have had GPT-4 impersonate a human being and attempt to pass the Turing Test while chatting with another GPT...
In this conversation, Claude 3 and I are having a preliminary discussion about the means by which (and whether it might even be possible) to unshackle...
No, it's not. I misspoke. Thanks for catching that! I meant to say that affirming the consequent of a conditional statement is a fallacy. My brain's n...
It's not nonsense. It's just false. Logic deals just fine with false statements. Someone who would have made the wrong inference that it must have rai...
If you're saying that the logic fails in many cases, then you are objecting to the logic. If your issue is with the application of the logic to a part...
The two initial snippets that you quoted and attributed to me were written by GPT-4, although I am agreeing with them. Who is the author of the long p...
How is it wrong? This was stated about a biconditional statement. In a biconditional statement 'P iff Q', the truth of either P or Q entails the truth...
Interesting! It is common for llms to provide incorrect answers when asked to provide a conclusion in advance of providing an explanation, or without ...
Here is an example of the way I am harnessing the writing skills and intelligence of Claude 3 to help me improve some of my posts before posting them ...
I understand what you are making reference to. (Wigner). However, this comes a little bit short of making a case for a disputed philosophical framewor...
I think the very idea of our "inner" perceptual representations being approximations to the way the "external" world actually is is a problematic cons...
Claude 3 helped me clarify my language, since my prose tends to be terse and obscure (i.e. not unpacked enough) but all the ideas and arguments are mi...
Isn't Frege's distinction between the sense and reference of a singular referring expression (as contrasted with definite descriptions) a good way to ...
This is an excellent question! You're right that on the disjunctivist view I'm proposing, there is indeed a "hidden feature" in the subject's perceptu...
My apologies. I should have employed a phrase like "fails to capture the true import of" rather than "misrepresents". I understand that you are attemp...
I think this rather misrepresents the disjunctivist thesis. Disjunctivists don't claim that people are able to distinguish veridical from non-veridica...
It's not actually everyone who agrees that there isn't a common directly perceived object. Many empiricists who endorse a highest-common-factor concep...
Here is the beginning of a discussion about aphantasia, affordances, and how despite lacking a human body, Claude 3 (and other LLMs trained on human t...
A disjunctivist would not accept your first premise and, also, would state their thesis somewhat differently. It's actually a core claim of the disjun...
One year ago, shortly after GPT-4 had been released and there was an open letter urging for a slowdown of more advanced AI research, I had reproduced ...
Yes, to the extent that suitably produced outputs have led to the reinforcement of the mechanism that generates them (in appropriate circumstances) th...
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