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mindbleach

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  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Does that razor let you say anything at all about intelligence or consciousness, given that neither has a rigid, formal, or universal definition?

    If the metric is 'see, it does the thing,' then a model which demonstrates thought would not be pretending to think.

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  • Fuck no. It is only because of the Turing test that we can say they're not conscious. You get someone questioning a bot and a person at the same time, they're gonna figure out who's who in short order. See: how many Rs in strawberry, name states without an E, should I walk to the car wash.

    If a program was indistinguishable from a person, what basis would we have to say the person is intelligent but the program is not?

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Any woman can make a whole new consciousness all by herself, with just a little help from a friend.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • ... and this wasn't made by accident, it was deliberately engineered to develop emergent behavior. Quite a lot of money has been spent hiring a variety of experts to make it do this thing.

    Hasn't worked. Almost certainly will never work, with this particular kind of network. But we would not have known that, just by looking at diagrams and going 'naaahhh.'

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Does a calculator simulate math?

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Careful down that road. Thought is a process, and we don't understand it well enough to explain it. So we cannot confidently declare it couldn't happen by tumbling text through layers of fake neurons.

    LLMs definitely aren't conscious, because they're dumb as hell. But we had to check. When GPT-2 was novel and closely guarded, we had no idea how well backpropagation could abstract all text ever published - and pessimists were mostly pushing Chinese Room nonsense. We have to bully that denialist thought experiment off the internet. It starts from a demonstrably intelligent subject - as real to you as I am now - then interrogates some unrelated interchangeable hardware. As if the conversations with your short-range pen-pal were not real unless the guy in the box knows why he's blindly following instructions. It's p-zombie dualism, except instead of a soul, you need Steve to pay attention.

    Only an explanation in terms of unconscious events could explain consciousness.

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  • Robit.

  • I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus

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  • If you ask for a long-ass list of anything, LLMs have context-length problems. Like trying to repeat the word elephant over and over. The math doesn't like it and weird shit happens.

    If you ask for one name at a time, and it comes up with the same name a bunch... uh... yeah? Were you expecting a perfectly flat distribution from McLovin to Mohammad? The probabilistic word-guesser is gonna have some trends. Marcus is an odd first pick, compared to its prevalence, but if you ask for a less-than-typical name, that is a correct answer.

    Similarly, if you ask an image model for a generic portrait, you're gonna get something from the middle of the probability space. It might be roughly the same vaguely familiar caucasian brunette every time. Or like this silly experiment, once every five times. It's not gonna be like hitting the Randomize button on Oblivion's character creator, because that's not how this tech works.

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    crazy take

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  • It costs money. It doesn't lose money. We spend money on it, so it fucking works.

    It costs less and works more if we all spend a little, than if your ass had to shop for it, yourself.

  • Solarpunk's most iconic meme is now real

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  • What does a shipping container have to be filled with, to hold back a big kite (and its cable) experiencing more wind than a wind turbine?

    if the ship happens to be going in approximately the same direction as the wind.

    If it generates electricity, why wouldn't it work with the blimp angled to starboard, or even pointed straight backwards? IIRC a land vehicle can even ride into the wind, faster than the wind, so long as it's extracting energy from the difference in velocity between dirt and air.

  • Watching AI companies complain that their intellectual property is not being respected will never stop being hilarious

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  • In undue fairness, there is a difference between turning text files into a chatbot, and exfiltrating that chatbot. One is transformative, and the other is making a megaphone out of some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone.

    But if I don't give a shit about companies doing math on Disney DVDs I'm not about to give a shit about them hoarding their big pile of numbers. I'm jazzed when source code leaks for things written by people.

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • They didn't even have David AR White money.

  • Solarpunk's most iconic meme is now real

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  • While not impossible, these claims feel like they're on the wrong side of the AM/FM divide between actual machines and fucking magic.

    "Smaller ground footprint" seems particularly odd, when the above-ground portion of a wind turbine is like a thirty-story shed.

  • Solarpunk's most iconic meme is now real

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  • What is the draw, versus a fan on a stick?

    There's a lot of reasons we don't do blimps in general.

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • They made a whole damn industry.

    I recommend the podcast God Awful Movies, where two jugglers and a magician get unreasonably familiar with christian cinema. Mostly. Like obviously they did all four God's Not Dead movies, and way too many rapture movies, but also Battlefield Earth, Plandemic, What The Bleep Do We Know, and - I swear I am not making this up - an orthodox Jewish Spy Kids knockoff.

    High-tier episodes are Loving The Bad Man, a movie where Steven Baldwin is a convicted rapist and somehow not the antagonist, Passage to Zarahemla, an alternate universe where Mormonism makes any damn sense, and Believe, which is Ebeneezer Scrooge apologism.

  • Cutting edge 19th century medicine

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  • His patient satisfaction ratings are incredible.

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • "Special-interest venue" is a very polite way of saying "propaganda scam."

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • They sprung for the Y-list actors.

  • Must hate watch,can't believe its a real film.

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  • Baby Ruths!