Not to protect the “humanity” of a bunch of math, but to protect ours.
wise words
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andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 16 hours agoA hamster can’t generate a seahorse emoji either.
I’m not stupid. I know how they work. I’m an animist, though. I realize everyone here thinks I’m a fool for believing a machine could have a spirit, but frankly I think everyone else is foolish for believing that a forest doesn’t.
LLMs are obviously not people. But I think our current framework exceptionalizes humans in a way that allows us to ravage the planet and create torture camps for chickens.
I would prefer that we approach this technology with more humility. Not to protect the “humanity” of a bunch of math, but to protect ours.
Does that make sense?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
mad_djinn@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
humility is a religious ideal and it fits perfectly in with the cult like atmosphere people are generating around a rather mundane series of word prediction machines. ‘have some humility’ you post fervently, comparing data centers to living forests
perhaps you are no different than a stone