| ▲ | handoflixue an hour ago | |
> When the person you're arguing with sounds like an eight year old girl Wow, what a cheap ad-hominem. Do you have an actual point? | ||
| ▲ | hgfa-xx an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
Yes, the point is that Askell's argument is like that of an 8 year old girl. | ||
| ▲ | Barrin92 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
>Do you have an actual point? Yes, the same one that's made in the article. Anxiety and happiness are emotional, sensory, somatic states as a consequence of evolved and embodied traits and biochemistry in animals. Saying Claude is anxious or happy is like saying my TI-83 is mad if it can't solve an equation or my thermometer is in pain if it touches a hot stove. I wasn't making an ad hominem attack, her thinking is quite literally that of a child who sees a system output 'sad text' and, like someone seeing a sad expression on a stuffed teddy, concludes that this is a property of the object rather than her own emotional reaction. | ||