They promised change, and delivered a coalition enabling the Tories to do what the Tories always do.

Fine then, kill it.

That idea seems to me to mostly stem from religion.

It also was strongly pushed by Skinner and other behaviorists, though I’m not sure they’d agree that humans are conscious either.

How could you tell they do not experience consciousness if they exhibit or mimic all the traits of it?

How could you tell if a camera sees or not, if it exhibits or mimics all the traits of it?

It is constantly under assault from those who want AI to be conscious

Those people aren’t doing science when they want that, they’re trying to pump up their share price.

The problem I see so often with smart computer people is that they don’t understand that they don’t know shit about other things

Or maybe you’re not talking to the smart computer people at all.

Consciousness requires contemplation of self.

Fish are conscious. Do they contemplate selfhood? So throw that one back into the oven until it’s fully baked.

Emergent phenomena are still phenomena.

Ai exposes, I think, the uncomfortable fact that intelligence does not require a soul.

Nobody doing science is talking about souls when explaining what consciousness is.

give it 100 trillion parameters instead of 2 trillion and maybe

And maybe it’s got nothing to do with the number of parameters.

What a crock. An LLM is no more conscious than a spreadsheet. The Google engineer has bought into the hype.

You’re not creating life, pal. You’re just making call centers shittier than they already are.

He’s not zero-sum with Putin, though. He’s Putin’s lackey regardless of what it costs him or his precious reputation.

They just distort the language of empathy to enable their cruelty.

If it’s racist, why doesn’t Trump like it?

When VC and PE call a company or industry “mature” it means

It means they see a hog ready to be slaughtered.

The LLM would make queries to the rigid, non-hallucinating accounting system.

ERP systems already do that, just not using AI.

LLMs often use bizarre “reasoning” to come up with their responses. And if asked to explain those responses, they then use equally bizarre “reasoning.” That’s because the explanation is just another post-hoc response.

Unless explainability is built in, it is impossible to validate an LLM.

“I experienced imperfect health, had herpes. So don’t complain about your cancer.”

That deters people from using call centers, which saves the firm money.

When they bought a firm I worked at, their goal was to asset-strip the pension fund. Luckily they lost a big court case over that and were forced to repay their ill-gotten gains, though we were still worse off than we would have been because of the legal fees.

VCs are value extractors too, they just use a different methodology from the PE pigs.

Everyone is greedy.

No they’re not. Don’t assume your fucked-up values are universal.

It’s just rational maximization of profits.

Only psychopaths and students in intro economic courses think solely in those terms.

You do too.

No I don’t. I chose my current job because it’s technically interesting but allows me a better quality of life than the much better paying job I had before that. And it helps society rather than enriching some money-hoarders.