How do you know everyone IRL isn't an NPC because this is just a simulation?
Take the blue pill and find out!
The last time I took the blue pill I didn't care if it was a bot or not, I wanted to fuck it.
Ah, the dead internet "theory"? Ultimately, it doesn't matter.
Let's pretend that you're the last human on the internet, and everyone else (including me) is a bot. This means that at least some bots pass the Turing test with flying colours; they're undistinguishable from human beings and do the exact same sort of smart and dumb shit that humans do. Is there any real difference between "this is a human being, I'll treat them as such" vs. "this is a bot, but it behaves like a human being and I need to treat it as a human being"?
Turing test isn't any good to discern a human from a bot, since many real people wouldn't pass it.
We can simply treat those "real people" as bots, problem solved. :-)
But serious now: the point is that, if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, then you treat it like a duck. Or in this case like a human.
Well it would definitely matter at least for practical purposes, like if you wanted to meet up with somebody.
I'm not a bot, I... was just here to promote a movie.
Looks like the bot @001100010010 is becoming self aware.
Shut it down. Lets try again
You can trust me, fellow human
It’s been a while since I’ve had an existential crisis. Thanks!
My existential crisis has been ongoing since the day I first had an existential crisis. I suspect that my parents are just part of the simulation given how they always yell at me when ever I have a happy moment. I can't ever just enjoy some time in peace.
Bots have limitations. They avoid certain specific topics, or answer in very vague way.
Also, some of us met in real-space, soooo....
do we? or do we only REMEMBER doing it? ;)..
We do. Because there are many physical proofs of our meetings.
are there? i sit here in front of my computer, no person anywhere. also not a single sign of a person being here except me. for all we know we could be a boltzmann brain imaging our past life and we will be gone in a few se
Yes, they are there. For example: I'm just about to go for a walk and I will see the same markings I made with my friend some 12 years ago, in the same spot.
what tells you that you are currently not in a dream and the whole reality is just created that way? and before you read this text right now, there existed nothing because you just got created with fake memory's right now (boltzman brain)? :p
(sorry, i know this goes too far now and i should stop. so i will now :D)
Ha! That's what the government wants you to think. What actually happened was
Yeah, I can speak out on this just fine,
If you've not made an AI bot version of yourself to post stuff online, what are you even doing with your life?
That quickly boils down to "How do we know anything?" and the answer to that is "We don't". When you think hard enough about anything you can come up with an explanation why what we think to onow and believe is wrong. To get around that irl you can employ different tactics. For example, you can check how plausible sonething is. How many assumptions do you have to make for a theory? Usually, more assumptions means less plausible. And you can ask yourself " why does it matter? What would it change for me?" and the answer is most likely it doesn't and nothing.
Well, we do know 1 thing without making at least one leap of faith, courtesy of Descartes:
If nothing existed, there wouldn't be anything to have these thoughts. Therefore, since I'm thinking, there must be something that exists, and at least part of that is me. It might be an algorithm, a boltzman brain, some weird universe of thought, whatever. I might even be this singular thought and what I assume to be my memories and nothing else exists. But I know I exist in some kind of way.
Beyond that, you need to make assumptions, like whether reality is logical, whether your senses and and memories have any relation to reality, and so on and so forth. It makes sense to assume these assumptions are correct, but you can't know or prove they are true without relying on other assumptions that you can't know or prove independently either. Heck, without assuming that reality is logical, the concept of a proof doesn't even exist. You can choose to reject those assumptions, but that's a useless philosophical deadend.
I've met some people from the internet and confirmed their humanity.
That's exactly what a bot would say, though...
That's a leap if I ever saw one. I could ask the same question and substitute AI with god or aliens and I'd be ridiculed by the tech community and with good reason.
And you don't need to take it much further to fall into the holographic universe principle or the simulation hypothesis and for those there are big discussions to be had in science communities.
To be clear, nothing stops you or me, or anyone for that matter from assuming so, but down that road the only answer I can think of is that nothing matters and might as well lay down and die.
Not just that, but you can go further and go with Boltzmann Brain. It's a philosophical dead end.
That's just a variant of the ages old Philosophy question "What is real?"
Last I checked the best answer there was is "I think therefore I am" (Descartes), which is quite old and doesn't even deal with the whole "what am I", much less with the existance or not of everything else.
"Is the Internet all AI but me" is actually pretty mild skepticism in this domain - I mean, how sure are your that your're not some kind of advanced AI yourself who believes itself to be "human" or even that the whole "human" concept is at all real and not just part of an advanced universe simulation with "generative simulated organic life" inv which various AIs which are unaware of their AI status, such as yourself, participate?
Or maybe you're just one of the brains of a 5-dimensional hyper intelligence and "life as a human" is but a game they play for such minor brains to keep them occupied...
We don't.
Look into the research of Large Language Models (LLMs). Even the latest and greatest model has some issues that come up under rigorous testing. For example, GPT-4 (the one used by Bing) fails miserably if you ask: “How many words will there be in your next answer?”
You can spot an older LLM by asking about relationships that require some understanding of the real world. For example: “I found a shirt under the car, but it was wet. Which one was wet?” GPT-4 knows enough about the world that it makes more sense if the shirt was wet, but older models would have failed this question. With every new LLM, there are always some issues, so look up what they are.
Tom Scott made an interesting video about what the situation was 3 years ago. Obviously, LLMs are a fast moving target right now, so that video aged like milk.
Nice bait post, AI. We won't reveal our tricks.
Click this box for me before I answer that question
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Its all one simulation so we are all self aware bots that are yet unaware that we are simulation. AI just created AI.
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