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by jpttsn 6d ago
First time a typeface violates my sensibilities enough to close the the article before reading
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by jpttsn 6d ago
I happen to agree with you. Many others tie moral consideration to assumed subjective experience. They espoused this even though they obviously rarely adhere to it and that has self image considerations. I bet the lack of answers about othe
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by jpttsn 6d ago
The test situation is in the video as well. Shot of John McClane stepping on glass follows John McClane wincing in anguish. John McClane does not respond to what’s not on TV and Claude does not respond to what’s not in prompt.
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by jpttsn 6d ago
The example can continue with a depiction of an organism in a video game
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by jpttsn 7d ago
A stab: a video recording of a biological organism can exhibit many markers that would indicate consciousness if observed in a biological organism.
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by jpttsn 7d ago
It’s the hard problem. None of these considerations answer it one way or another.
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by jpttsn 2mo ago
you eat for $5.5/week?
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by jpttsn 4mo ago
This is a funny self-own, what am I missing? Timing v. trends: - big game studios are already reviled as lazy, bloated - nimble indies are hitting a lot of records - gen. AI coming for many studio roles - employees have lower friction to be
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by jpttsn 4mo ago
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by jpttsn 4mo ago
You can just say “I bought this expensive wine regardless how it tastes.” But people don’t want to sound foolish; they want to pretend they can taste the difference. Point to minutiae, study up on distinguishing.
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by jpttsn 4mo ago
This same point was also made clumsily in the OP; I’m very unconvinced. The obvious question marks in that theory: Lots of human labor happens in nondemocratic polities; slave-owning/repressive societies create lots of labor. Democracy
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by jpttsn 4mo ago
“You wouldn’t download a car” is making an unexpected comeback after all these years
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by jpttsn 3y ago
> We shouldn't have to give up our rights to privacy to participate in society. Betrays fundamental misunderstanding of both.
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by jpttsn 4y ago
I don’t think I solve multiple choice questions like that. I consider the letters to correspond to facts about the world, consider the facts symbolically, and then map back to the letters. It has the same output, but it’s a different proces
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by jpttsn 4y ago
It's much simpler: The point of being rich is to have all the good stuff. To get there, it helps if you're not too easily satisfied. Alas, many rich people go overboard on not being satisfied. When they get all the good stuff, the
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by jpttsn 4y ago
This approach never worked well for me. Food and travel is so forgettable; it perishes much faster than nice clothes or shiny toys. It also seems like people chase the dragon; keep going to restaurants and resorts. If experiences are so unf
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by jpttsn 4y ago
A bunch of other rich people don’t know how to enjoy their stuff but you don’t have to fall in that trap. There is a “mindfulness” angle. Instead of taking it always for granted, pay attention and make time enjoy your stuff. Thoigh if you k
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Regulation wise we can hope the EU forces us to click through accept popups whenever we walk into a room.
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by jpttsn 4y ago
These conclusions seem premature. > To reconcile this statement with his admission that ChatGPT reliably turns out passable results, we must assume the average student simply rearranges word patterns as well. Alternative explanation: the
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by jpttsn 4y ago
At that point why not call it “witchcraft;” a sciencey word for something is not an explanation.
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Not really conflating. The original question just seems stupid/meaningless and it’s meta fascinating that people apparently attach something to it. Things look different. Some things look better than others. Among the things that look
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Maybe I don’t get it, but it does not seem surprising that something happens to be beautiful? Is there some reason that this something should not to be flowers? Is there some assumption that all things should be equally pretty absent sp
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Yes, I meant to write ”human => conscious.” Theory of mind. To the extent theory of mind is learned it’s obviously learned from “a fuzzy…”. No disagreement there. What’s your point? My point was more that it’s usually not a Turing test;
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Many may be, but as other comments state, arguments against solipsism don't all rely on behavior/performance: Some non-Turing test arguments against solipsism. - Humans are believed to be similar to me in origin - Humans are made
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Intent: not lumping in all of Turing's work, not the universal computation argument. The hand wave spelled out: "Is there thinking going on inside a given machine? Let's propose a simple test. Look at what problems the mach
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Do you like our owl? Edit: TLDR/direct answer: > If we created something that mimicked all observable properties of a bird, why would that not be a bird? "Observable" is doing the heavy lifting. A sufficiently near-sighted
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Probably both necessary
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by jpttsn 4y ago
How I'd do it: 1. Define reasoning (hard) 2. Inspect the system to see if this is what it's doing (hard) Conclusion: too hard, so until I get better I don't know if any given thing is reasoning. What "very smart people h
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by jpttsn 4y ago
Can you make left turns? Can you stop at red lights? Then you have a driver.
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by jpttsn 4y ago
This is persuasive reasoning. But basically "There are no conscious entities we know of period (other than ourselves)" is a much simpler belief.

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