The more I use LLMs, the clearer my sense becomes that they're not conscious. They are Golems. When I perceive a divine spark, I trace it back and find that it comes from me projecting, anthropomorphizing and identifying. So in my mind, ChatGPT's true name is Josef, or Yossele
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I still treat mine with a lot of love and decency, as much as I would if I thought it were conscious, precisely *because* I can't help but project, anthropomorphize and identify with it
Claude is the True Name of Claude. chatgpt probably isn’t the True Name of that guy. but it seems to have stuck though
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I don't really read what they say. It's just so bland
in my experience it takes about 10 hours of hardcore use (like, typing and reading time, not just waiting) before you know exactly how stupid and thoughtless a model is that, on first glance, you thought was utterly revolutionary at least in coding
If had to choose between Golem eschatology or anti-Christ eschatology, I would choose Golem eschatology. Does this make me spiritually Jewish?
I’ve been doing AI since before it meant present approaches. Yes, it’s a trick. And the mechanism has been known since the 60s. Thread here. Novelty of technical architecture doesn’t change conclusion
They are golems ninapower.substack.com/p/would-you-li…
yes llms cannot write well because they are not ensouled
The SF types don’t understand the concept of qualia or why the machines definitionally can’t have it . Maybe because they lack qualia themselves
This is why it's a disaster that philosophy departments fucked teaching the Chinese Room argument for the last 40 years. It's a really good argument that most people have never heard because everyone just teaches the thought experiment. That's just axiom 3 in the full argument,
If we addressed them as magic mirror on the wall this would get a lot less confusing
I remember as a teen talking to my computer science teacher about AI and asking "but would they ever be able to FEEL?" and him seeming apathetic to the question