i think it’s incredible how people claim that if you say “llms don’t think” you are a “physicalist” or, even worse, a secret dualist it’s a basic manipulative trick, you know extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and they don’t have any there’s NO evidence for llms being conscious
“what if the AI doesn’t want to be shut down so it kills all humans?” well, the funny thing is, llms don’t exist between prompts. there is no there there. the model is sent a request, it “starts up” to receive it, processes it, and then it “shuts down” again. every single time.
the ai coding crybullies never survived a usenet os/editor/language war and it shows some people online don’t like the tools you’re using? SO WHAT? either stop or suck it up
bunch of total fuckwits in my replies claiming that our eyeballs and hands are no different than a react app i’ve blocked them but genuinely this is an absolutely braindead argument and it’s a sign they’ve been spending too much time talking to chatbots and not enough to humans with brains
me: so it’s obvious that llms aren’t conscious bc they have no memory, no persistence, each turn is totally fresh, it’s fakery random dude: yeah well your perception is also an illusion bc of saccades and stuff …THAT IS STILL THE HUMAN BRAIN. my eyes aren’t an app written in react.
people really wanna use the exonerative tense for llm creators and users “an llm did xyz” :: “a car jumped the curb” :: “an officer-involved shooting”
if artificial intelligence can feel pain i’m gonna need to put some in my thermostat so i can shock it when it decides to ignore my settings and just tells me it’s “waiting” WAITING FOR WHAT
“they’re torturing the llms, which tract as if they’re being tortured. it’s psycho behavior” clearly you have not spent enough time around players of the global smash hit game, the sims
coffee thought: llms are non-determinist bc of the goals of producing a more naturalistic, interesting output, right? model wights don’t change, they’re fixed. so if you wanted the “most probable” next token every time, you COULD get it. no?
waooow llms are so useful for summarizing
