BodilessGaze

I'M AT SOUP

Captains do that all the time. It's no biggie. That planet was probably going to be food for the Tyranids anyway.

Oh wait, wrong community.

True, but if he hadn't, we wouldn't have one of the best episodes in the series.

Some places don't allow it. I tried to buy a monitor from Dell.com a few months ago and they silently canceled my order. I called support and they said their system doesn't allow + addresses and asked me to use my main email. I told them bodilessgaze+fuckdell@gmail.com IS my main email.

Based and nixpilled

What about AIHNPtPaNVaB (Assigned I have no plans to purchase a new vehicle at birth)?

I agree, but I'm not sure it matters when it comes to the big questions, like "what separates us from the LLMs?" Answering that basically amounts to answering "what does it mean to be human?", which has been stumping philosophers for millennia.

It's true that artificial neurons are significant different than biological ones, but are biological neurons what make us human? I'd argue no. Animals have neurons, so are they human? Also, if we ever did create a brain simulation that perfectly replicated someone's brain down to the cellular level, and that simulation behaved exactly like the original, I would characterize that as a human.

It's also true LLMs can't learn, but there are plenty of people with anterograde amnesia that can't either.

This feels similar to the debates about what separates us from other animal species. It used to be thought that humans were qualitatively different than other species by virtue of our use of tools, language, and culture. Then it was discovered that plenty of other animals use tools, have language, and something resembling a culture. These discoveries were ridiculed by many throughout the 20th century, even by scientists, because they wanted to keep believing humans are special in some qualitative way. I see the same thing happening with LLMs.

I don't know how I work. I couldn't tell you much about neuroscience beyond "neurons are linked together and somehow that creates thoughts". And even when it comes to complex thoughts, I sometimes can't explain why. At my job, I often lean on intuition I've developed over a decade. I can look at a system and get an immediate sense if it's going to work well, but actually explaining why or why not takes a lot more time and energy. Am I an LLM?

Just a little genocide, as a treat

My condolences

Question sarge: how does the helmet stay on when we're slithering?