Miller

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on LLMs reward expertise · c/hackernews · 1 pts · 1h

I agree with what you said, the problem with it is as the process becomes more refined and the scope of the information it draws upon becomes larger so it appears to more and more resemble conscious thought. My problem is how do you know that is not what we are doing. That throughout our infancy especially but really our whole life our subconscious mind is just learning the likelihood of what the next word is and then passing those complete sentences and ideas to our conscious minds, which then understands that process as thought. There is no doubt when I think ideas just arrive in my conscious mind from my subconscious mind in the same way when I think to pick up a cup with my conscious mind it has no idea about sending messages to the muscle groups in my arm to do that, my subconscious mind understands what my conscious mind wants to do and deals with all the technical side. So how can we know the way the subconscious mind deals with the technical side of thinking is not probabilistic and thoughts formed in this way are passed to our consciousness which then convinces itself it engaged in something very special called thought. That the success of LLM is that they stumbled upon the way our minds actually think and that as the comprehension of the models grow so they will approach conscious thought, with the only difference to organic thought being we can see the behind the scenes working of the subconscious part of the process.

I should not listen over much to Galen, he also said every beast is unhappy after a groaning except the human female and the rooster.

on way worse · c/lemmyshitpost · 6 pts · 13h

I did not think of it in those terms but you are right cringe and word chewing represent an ultra-extrapolation of Dasein into the absurd. Incidentally my grandmother met Heidegger on the kneipe stairs in Freiburg, that is not a euphemism. At least I hope its not.

on way worse · c/lemmyshitpost · 7 pts · 15h

Cringe is just the presentation of the mundane as exceptional and saying that observation is mean is just a way to cling to it for a little longer.

No a parasite is not a predator, they are not the same thing, they are spelt completely differently for starters. Although they do both start with pee, the same as does your perfect night in with Mrs gandalf.

on The AI ‘boom’ · c/fuck_ai · 6 pts · 1d

True I suppose but does not include the part where CEOs are too blinkered to understand they are part of the world.

Habits as defined in this paper are on a spectrum I think with obsessive compulsive behaviour and represent a relic legacy means by we acquired strategies to deal with the world before we had our current level of consciousness, which now allows us largely to replace habit with learning.