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Comment · 2 months ago
Honestly, “The earthquakes they experienced so far weren’t bad enough” doesn’t sound like a good argument for “let’s keep pumping”. All it takes to make this not worth it is a single bad one.
Comment · 2 months ago
Smart trick, but assumes the “dumb” llm is smart enough not to derail into an article about the lives of South American red ants. Obvious exaggeration, the point being outcomes should stay strictly within topic, avoid unrelated bloat and hit the target.
Comment · 4 months ago
What’s stopping inventors using ai from simply using their own names as authors and owners of the patents? I’m honestly unsure this addresses the core issue: big companies with lots of resources will keep on patenting ideas, if anything at a far higher rate than before.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 years ago
"Jackson’s thought-experiment about Mary challenges physicalism in the following way. Physicalists claim that physical science can fully explain consciousness. However, when Mary sees the red of the apple, says Jackson, she learns something new, despite having previously learnt all the physical facts about colour vision. Thus, argues Jackson, Mary has come to know a non-physical fact; so proving that not all knowledge is physical."

I can't see how this result proves anything. Consider the analogous experiment of "Mary learns to cycle by reading books". Surely she can learn all the physics behind cycling without truly knowing how to cycle, and one could similarly conclude that there is something beyond the physical mind behind this skill. Nevertheless, we can use reinforcement learning to teach an ANN to cycle, and that doesn't mean our robot has acquired a metaphysical consciousness.

You can still interpret both results from a physicalists perspective as in "some learnings require specific physical stimuli".

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