I must confess I have a personal vendetta against Yudkowsky and his cult. I studied computer science in college. As an undergrad, I worked as an AI research assistant. I develop software for a living. This is my garden the LessWrong crowd is trampling.
I absolutely hate people throwing around the word ‘sentient’ like they know what it means. If you just read any dictionary it’s pretty obviously not some arbitrary word you can use to say it’s ok to kill animals.
I think Eliezer Yudkowsky could probably ask in words not to be killed, but that doesn’t mean he contains a spark of awareness like a chicken does.
Love when my “AI expert” has no education on the subject and just makes up random thought experiments with no basis in reality.
And this dipshit is somehow a millionaire.
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And this dipshit is somehow a millionaire.
the most PMC neoliberal out of the entire class of IBM computer holocaust technicians :epstein
Does this person think that YouTube videos have awareness because they can speak in response to stimuli (playing them)?
Do they think that people without the ability to communicate are not sapient?
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If input contains kill Print “no kill pls”
Zam my comment is sentient
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the really big switch statement has more likelihood of having sentience than the living breathing entities that experience the earth with usonly the most rational thoughts from the autodidact supreme
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because my friend and I are MST3King through HP:MOR and I needed a face to represent the specific brainworms this guy and his cult has
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HP: MOR
Have you uh…. Gotten to the ring yet?
we’re ten chapters in
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Wtf? Glad I could recognize how mid those books were from the start.
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Seeing shit like Peterson and Shapiro, it really was better when right-wingers dismissed philosophy the same way they dismissed sociology and basic decency.
printf(“It’s okay to delete me I’m not real”);
He is so fucking stupid.
Actually you know what? I hope he keeps talking. I hope he keeps talking about a wider and wider variety of subjects because that increases the odds of any person seeing him talk and going ‘Wait a minute, I think this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about!’, which is the reaction everyone should have
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I assumed Elon was just incapable of empathy, but after he tweeted “If you don’t think there’s a tiny chance you’re an NPC, then you probably are”, I wouldn’t be shocked if his brain was a biological version of chatGPT.
Like their own sentience is the one thing every sentient being is certain of.
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The normal refutation to this is that the LLM is not “telling” you anything, it is producing an output of characters that, according to its training on its data set, look like a plausible response to the given prompt. This is like using standard conditioning methods to teach a gorilla to make gestures corresponding to “please kill me now” in sign language and using that to justify killing it. They are not “communicating” with the symbols in the sense of the semantic meanings humans have assigned the symbols, because the context they have observed the symbols in and used them for is utterly divorced from those arbitrary meanings.
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More formally, there was sentience involved, but it was upstream when the data set was produced and curated in the first place. Which is why LLMs have that warmed over photocopy feel.
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From what I’ve seen from Yudkowsky, what stands out to me is his ignorance and lack of curiosity about how anything actually works.
If God is our way to explain questions we have no answer to, then you can truly find God in any machine as long as you maintain your own ignorance, as long as you choose not to lift the curtain. You can make claims that chickens have no sentience or that ChatGPT does, you can make claims that humans are meat computers as long as you don’t actually care about the true inner workings of anything, as long as you don’t interrogate what any of that actually means.
Yudkowsky’s beliefs truly sound like faith, pure religious faith. The less you know, the more you can believe.
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Also he’s getting dumber. His ideas are getting worse with every iteration and he was once a smart but annoying kid who’s turnkey parents didn’t keep him off usenet before too much damage was done.
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The what?
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Well now you gotta tell me.
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