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mleku · 2w
that means that you are empty inside. like an llm. that's tragic.
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Back when I dabbled in the philosophy of mind, I was pretty open to the idea of machines developing consciousness. The philosophical arguments for that seemed fairly strong.

But now that AI has actually arrived, I just can't bring myself to to believe at all that I'm dealing with anything conscious here. They just don't seem to have the right internal structure.

"empty inside" is a bit strong, though, there is a lot going on inside an LLM.
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mleku · 2w
it feels empty but it's more like unnatural smoothness. you can even get them to talk about it, but i think really it's just a property of the mathematics that is used. it works - but it's not what real consciousness is built on and that's why it's not lumpy like real consciousness. based also on a...