▲ | latexr 18 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Being struck by lighting may affect your desire to go outside, but it has zero correlation with the sky’s beauty. Outer space is beautiful, poison dart frogs are beautiful, lava is beautiful. All of them can kill or maim you if you don’t wear protection, but that doesn’t take away from their beauty. Conversely, boring safe things aren’t automatically beautiful. I see no reasonable reason to believe that finding beauty in the night sky is any sort of “training”. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | ninetyninenine 13 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Do you think a fat pig is beautiful? Like a hairy fat pig that snorts and rolls in the mud… is this animal so beautiful to you that you would want to make love to this animal? Of course not! Because pigs are intrinsically and universally ugly and sex with a pig is universally disgusting. But you realize that horny male pigs think this is beautiful right? Horny pigs want to fuck other pigs because horny pigs think fat sweaty female hogs are beautiful. Beauty is arbitrary. It is not intrinsic. Even among life forms and among humans we all have different opinions on what is beautiful. I guarantee you there are people who think the night sky is ugly af. Attributes like beauty are not such profound categories that separate an LLM from humanity. These are arbitrary classifications and even though you can’t fully articulate the “experience” you have of “beauty” the LLM can’t fully articulate its “experience” either. You think it’s impossible for the LLM to experience what you experience… but you really have no evidence for this because you have no idea what the LLM experiences internally. Just like you can’t articulate what the LLM experiences neither can the LLM. These are both black box processes that can’t be described but neither is very profound given the fact that we all have completely different opinions on what is beautiful. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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