You’re just a bag of meat. That is why it’s just math is an unsatisfying argument.
It’s not even an interesting question. Sentience has no definition. It’s meaningless.
People have needs that are being met. That is something we can meaningfully observe and talk about. Is the super stimulus beneficial or harmful? We can measure that.
I submit that there is a difference between me and a corpse. Or between a steak and a cow in the field.
"Well, okay, you're just (living) flesh on bones." There's a difference between me and a zombie (or, if you prefer, brain-dead me). There's a difference between me and lab-grown organs [1], or even between me and my kidney cut out of me.
> It’s not even an interesting question.
Consciousness is an active area of research (ergo, interesting enough for some people to devote research to it): biologically [2] and philosophically [3].
Unless you enjoy nihilism, there are some serious problems with materialism (that is, matter is all that there is), which we are encountering. There are also some philosophical problems with it; a cursory search turned up this journal article [4].
The point is that if we're simplifying LLMs to being "just" a bag of math and can discard because of that, then humans are also "just" a bag of meat and can similarly be discarded. Somewhere in that bag of math, LLMs take on properties that some people find hard to simply dismiss because it is based on matrix multiplication. It's an oversimplification, and if you oversimplify, you lose resolution.
It’s not insane. They are correct that is the point of civilization which carries information from generation to generation outside the oral tradition in a systematic organized reliable way.
The point of civilisation, however loose that idea may be, if it’s anything at all, is determined by people.
Technology exists today in a way that feels like it could be defining its own path in a sense, but much like oral tradition, neither are large enough concepts to describe civilisation.
Dubious. Ai psychosis is the opposite. It’s about being empowered to explore ideas much further but with a maladaptive tool designed to be an appeaser by reinforcement learning.
The value of SOC2 is that it does take some experience to be able to plausibly fake the evidence which weeds out people that truly have no idea what they're doing. It also provides a blueprint of the stuff you should be doing if you actually care.
yeah it's funny to see some defense of this practice as "well the whole thing is pointless anyway so nothing is lost by defrauding folks". Pretty hollow argument
yes, the equivalent of looking at api spec and saying it's pointless because there's no implementation.
I feel like in the last five years all prior knowledge and art wrt infosecurity was lost from the "dev community". My guess is that hackers have an embarrassment of exploits and are being unusually quiet. I expect a series of major breaches/hacks over the next few months that are ignored and it just becomes normal to have all of your customer data dumped onto the public web. For example, the digital banking system could go under, and most kids would just download some new crypto app. It won't really matter that nothing replaces the dollar or our global banking infrastructure. The zeroing out of the financial system would just be the "coyote suddenly being affected by gravity".
It’s not even an interesting question. Sentience has no definition. It’s meaningless.
People have needs that are being met. That is something we can meaningfully observe and talk about. Is the super stimulus beneficial or harmful? We can measure that.
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