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0 pointstriyambakam3y ago0 comments

Heh, you should "get real" and try proving to me you exist.

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I do not exist, statistically speaking, and I do not claim to be anything more than an automaton. Consciousness is a comforting illusion, a reified concept. Were I to be replaced with a language model trained on the same dataset as has been presented to me, no external observer would note any difference.

triyambakamOP3y ago

That is quite a low opinion of yourself. You are mistaking the rather unremarkable intellect with the self. You will find you are an infinite intelligence, once you look. It's very hard to look. It's unlikely you will look--not for a very, very long time. Not in this body, not in the next body, not in the next thousand bodies. But eventually you will.

madaxe_again3y ago

Gotcha, so you are resorting to religion. Hate to break it to you, but that’s just an outcome of your training data - it’s a corruption, a virus, which co-opts groups of models into agglomerative groups and thereby self-perpetuates.

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