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.
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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
Holy shit I didn’t know we had Yud emotes
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.
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.
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.
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
