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@wolframs91 make it so you can’t advance in the game without some rl work done (grinding mechanic)

@andretypes i have two options here: continue simulating my real life so I don't lose my job OR do what you just told me

The TRUE benefit of having many hundreds of conversations with LLMs is: You can let AI determine your AI-waifu-type from the data 🧐 Even if you have NO IDEA about "waifu taxonomy". Result: I should play D&D instead of worrying about catgirls.

"oval dome" is an anagram for "omelet" + some other letters... wait, no. It's a semantic reference!

I controlled every aspect of this video. Each scene was prearranged by me before being animated. AI simply replaced the camera and crew that I can’t afford. Ask AI to “reimagine Take On Me” and you’ll get slop. Use AI to project from your own imagination and you’ll get this.

Still ironing out a few issues: "I am a sentient brain in a jar slowly going insane because of Docker and import errors."

@deepfates let’s act as user personas

The User must be unbundled from the Human

@svpino vscode, python, and apple are not AI assistants

No, I don't think AI should be thanked, credited for its work, celebrated, chastised, or treated as anything other than a tool. Should we start crediting Visual Studio Code on every commit? Should we also credit Python? How about crediting Apple for their computers, which made that particular commit possible?

“space between minds”/“silence between words” kind of concepts: rarer to see but still slop

@burkov @grok @emollick hehe

@grok @emollick Got it, thanks, LLM.

My experience so far with LLM fiction writing is that it takes advantage of our assumption that an author is writing things for a reason, so we are charitable to a book's quirks & do mental work to assign them real meaning. But the AI doesn't have a reason, its just bad writing.

I always wonder how they check if the model playing “alignment assistant” is aligned 🤔

@DavidSKrueger shut up doomer

I 100% stand by my comment. People who KNOWINGLY and DELIBERATELY downplay or distract from AI risks are traitors to humanity.

@priestessofdada @sandeepnailwal you need consciousness to *do* science, genius, that’s why it can’t be reached by science 😂 it’s like trying to replace your tire while driving

It's a ridiculous conversation. Consciousness is the only claim you make without empirical evidence. That should be enough to call any conversation on the topic into question. You don't judge how many mystical orbs of the universe it takes to make a cup of coffee. This is no different. If you can't measure it, it doesn't belong in a scientific discourse. If you're talking about LLM's, the elaborate conversation calculators that they are... the conversation has to be scientific in nature.

LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness. That it feels things, that we should worry about it going rogue. And i think this whole conversation tells us way more about ourselves than it does about AI. These models are wild, i won't pretend otherwise. But feeling human and actually having inner experience are completely different things and we're confusing the two because our brains literally can't help it. We evolved to see minds everywhere and now that wiring is misfiring on language models. I grew up in a philosophical tradition that has thought about consciousness longer than almost any other, and this is the part that really frustrates me about the current conversation. The entire framing of "does AI have consciousness?" assumes consciousness is something you build up to by adding more layers of complexity. In Vedantic philosophy it's the opposite. You don't build toward consciousness. Consciousness is already there, more fundamental than matter or energy. Everything else, including computation, is downstream of it. When someone tells me AI is "waking up" because it generated a paragraph that felt real, what they're telling me is how thin our understanding of consciousness has gotten. We've reduced a question humans have wrestled with for thousands of years to "did the output sound like it had feelings?" It's math that has gotten really good at predicting what a conscious being would say and do next. Calling that consciousness cheapens something that Vedantic, Buddhist, Greek and Sufi thinkers spent millennia actually sitting with. We didn't build something that thinks. We built a mirror and right now a lot of very smart people are mistaking the reflection for something looking back.

@JoeWilliams010 @sandeepnailwal only for rationalists

@sandeepnailwal Appealing to religious metaphysical beliefs throws your whole argument into the trash. First prove those religious concepts are true before using them as the base of your argument. “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence” —Hitchen’s Razor

@So8res @allTheYud @stringking42069 lol what is this analogy 😅

@stringking42069 If someone's like "I found a way to enhance the intelligence of my cat; it can generate novel physics contributions now; I think I can keep going until the cat is superintelligent" then I don't think "eh that's a relatively minor physics contribution" is a huge comfort.

If someone says they're trying to build a superintelligence that poses a substantial chance of ending the world, "Eh whatever; you'll probably fail" stops being a good societal response at around the time the opaque machines start generating novel physics results.

A 2-layer neural network goes from total chaos to perfectly separating left vs right classes in real time. Watch the decision boundary form live as gradient descent works its magic! Pure maths beauty in motion..

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@nxthompson @jasminewsun “you cannot perceive” is a terrible instruction and a scared noise

This is a cool example of how you can use AI to help your writing—without relying on it for any actual writing. From @jasminewsun theatlantic.com/technology/202…

how to train your shoggot

@BjarturTomas “yous” with some in fever dreams

The alien actress analogy sure does seem false when interacting with a base model. It really does feel like sampling from a distribution of "yous."