BodilessGaze

@BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but I’m not sure it matters when it comes to the big questions, like “what separates us from the LLMs?” Answering that basically amounts to answering “what does it mean to be human?”, which has been stumping philosophers for millennia.

  It’s true that artificial neurons are significant different than biological ones, but are biological neurons what make us human? I’d argue no. Animals have neurons, so are they human? Also, if we ever did create a brain simulation that perfectly replicated someone’s brain down to the cellular level, and that simulation behaved exactly like the original, I would characterize that as a human.

  It’s also true LLMs can’t learn, but there are plenty of people with anterograde amnesia that can’t either.

  This feels similar to the debates about what separates us from other animal species. It used to be thought that humans were qualitatively different than other species by virtue of our use of tools, language, and culture. Then it was discovered that plenty of other animals use tools, have language, and something resembling a culture. These discoveries were ridiculed by many throughout the 20th century, even by scientists, because they wanted to keep believing humans are special in some qualitative way. I see the same thing happening with LLMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how I work. I couldn’t tell you much about neuroscience beyond “neurons are linked together and somehow that creates thoughts”. And even when it comes to complex thoughts, I sometimes can’t explain why. At my job, I often lean on intuition I’ve developed over a decade. I can look at a system and get an immediate sense if it’s going to work well, but actually explaining why or why not takes a lot more time and energy. Am I an LLM?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Kevin Ross Digg wgah’nagl fhtagn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speak American⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I woke up screaming last night because I dreamed I went to grab my colored pencils and they said “colour” on the box

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The OG. The fact it was all done by a single dude blows my mind. People often praise Toby Fox for the same reason, and he definitely deserves it, but he wasn’t good at programming. Pixel was good at everything: programming, music, writing, and art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll remember that the next time I enter my PIN number at an ATM machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy moment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully, there’s an official standard for using the internet with just carrier pigeons: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers