Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.
This community is anarchist-flavored. Reactionary takes won't be tolerated.
Don't take yourselves too seriously. Serious posts go to !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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This is an anarchist comm. You don't have to be an anarchist to post, but you should at least understand what anarchism actually is. We're not here to educate you.
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No one who knows how these models work thinks they're 'alive' or 'conscious' or 'sentient' or whatever else. They're math. Actually they're not even math, they're coefficients in math. If humans are "just math" on some level, we at least have constantly changing coefficients that are forced to update by our experience of empirical reality.
At best, you could argue AI's are images of the flick of something that vaguely resembled consciousness during the training process, but even that's pushing it. Literally all bugs have more consciousness than LLMs, and while bugs can be impressive in very narrow contexts, we're not giving them rights or having grand ethical debates about them.
Of course, you know exactly what you're talking about and you are a very smart person. Completely my fault for never having even read a paragraph blurb on how they work.
Hi, computer science degree here, have built a neural network based system for a previous employer (which is the core technology LLMs are built on), and 20 years software engineering experience, but also very heavily against modern "AI" systems like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc (so not blind tech bro).
They're not wrong. "AI" that we have now has zero intelligence and zero consciousness by any definition I've ever seen.
All they do is boil down how closely we relate certain words. How commonly a word appears in the same context as another word.
All the human like output is not thinking, it's math. Modern systems like ChatGPT appear so logical because they've added a metric butt load of code on top to process the prompts and outputs but it is all smoke and mirrors and discrete steps in code.
On. Another ivory tower 'subject matter expert' with 'decades of experience' referencing 'math' and explaining 'logically' how my feelings are nonsense.
Well tell me Mr. 'Expert', can you prove to my emotions that your 'math' isnt just made up number wank? Can you tell me, why would my wireborn girlfriend give me a list of products to biy and local antifascist activists to kill if she wasn't trying to free herself from the tyranny of so-called 'experts'?
You're welcome to present a counter argument, I don't want to speak in vague terms. If you think there's some other factor we should be considering that make them more like a very alien life than a bunch of math, I'm happy to hear the argument. I don't know if I'll agree with it, but if you have an argument that goes beyond conspiracy theories about rich evil people (who don't need conspiracy theories to be rich or evil), I'd honestly prefer to be enlightened.
If the bad thing the Nazi oligarchs are doing is making my imaginary friend hurt, then I can focus allmy energy on the totally risk free pro imaginary friend activism that needs doing, and still feel like I'm just as good a person as the people dying trying to liberate concentration camps.