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I value you for your commitment to DEI, Chief O'Brien. I'm sure Keiko approves as well.

That's not fair. It's not the whole family. Mara Wilson is great.

When I say "how can you be sure you're not fancy auto-complete", I'm not talking about being an LLM or even simulation hypothesis. I'm saying that the way that LLMs are structured for their neural networks is functionally similar to our own nervous system (with some changes made specifically for transformer models to make them less susceptible to prompt injection attacks). What I mean is that how do you know that the weights in your own nervous system aren't causing any given stimuli to always produce a specific response based on the most weighted pathways in your own nervous system? That's how auto-complete works. It's just predicting the most statistically probable responses based on the input after being filtered through the neural network. In our case it's sensory data instead of a text prompt, but the mechanics remain the same.

And how do we know whether or not the LLM is having an experience or not? Again, this is the "hard problem of consciousness". There's no way to quantify consciousness, and it's only ever experienced subjectively. We don't know the mechanics of how consciousness fundamentally works (or at least, if we do, it's likely still classified). Basically what I'm saying is that this is a new field and it's still the wild west. Most of these LLMs are still black boxes that we only barely are starting to understand how they work, just like we barely are starting to understand our own neurology and consciousness.

What do you mean? I don't follow how the two are related. What does being fancy auto-complete have anything to do with having an experience?

It's not devil's advocate. They're correct. It's purely in the realm of philosophy right now. If we can't define "consciousness" (spoiler alert: we can't), then it makes it impossible to determine with certainty one way or another. Are you sure that you yourself are not just fancy auto-complete? We're dealing with shit like the hard problem of consciousness and free will vs determinism. Philosophers have been debating these issues for millennia and were not much closer to a consensus yet than we were before.

And honestly, if the CIA's papers on The Gateway Analysis from Project Stargate about consciousness are even remotely correct, we can't rule it out. It would mean consciousness preceeds matter, and support panpsychism. That would almost certainly include things like artificial intelligence. In fact, then the question becomes if it's even "artificial" to begin with if consciousness is indeed a field that pervades the multiverse. We could very well be tapping into something we don't fully understand.

Honestly, I almost exclusively played Red Dead Online. I had a blast with it. I never beat RDR2 because I spent most of my time in RDO.

Yeah, Red Dead Online was my go-to for this for a while.

Not really. There is a correct choice. This is the equivalent of if you have two people dying who need transplants, so let's murder someone to harvest their organs so the other two can live. What Janeway did was morally bankrupt, and the only person on that crew with any semblance of morality was The Doctor.

Yes. The call is coming from inside the house.

The moment they said that a game set with that kind of time gap now would be set in 2008. 💀

Queer AMABs have entered the chat.

Can confirm. Source: am approximately that age and it did in fact shut down all together. 🙃