| ▲ | moralestapia 15 hours ago | |
>There is nothing distasteful about it. It's obvious that you don't get it but I will try my best to explain why so at least you can form an idea about how others feel. It's about what makes humans unique. The LLM does not experience reality, it just merely pretends it does, and even that, it does in a shitty way. I think disgusting is a very adequate adjective. The reason why it is disgusting is because you are devaluing a divine experience to the realm of the common and the vulgar, a cheap substitute being valued as equal (or even on the same scale) as the most important experience we could go through. To give you an example that might land in a more familiar context, think of that one guy who takes his plastic doll everywhere and pretends it's his wife and gets upset when others don't acknowledge "her" as a person. | ||
| ▲ | cat-snatcher 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> The LLM does not experience reality Who said that it did? The comment you're replying to literally states "It's only actually anthropomorphizing if you forget it's a trick and think it's a real person". You're the one obviously not getting it. | ||
| ▲ | godwinson__4-8 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> pretending it does is disgusting. There is no pretending happening. Telling it to believe in itself is no more pretending than telling it anything else in natural language. Why are you speaking to it at all if it's not a person? Why write in higher level languages even? It's just a machine let's all go back and code in 1s and 0s. No one is calling it a person except mental health patients and straw man detractors. The biology example was even weaker. Saying it has a "biology" is about as distasteful as the term "neural net" or calling an input device a "mouse". Is it animal abuse to click on something all day? Language is inherently anthropomorphizing. No one is calling it human. The fact you are so easily threatened is far more suggestive of your own poverty of understanding of not only the machine, but yourself. If humans are so special the threat posed by this should be self evidently non existent. | ||
| ▲ | monkpit 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Who is pretending? | ||
| ▲ | thunky 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
You're accusing GP of saying something they didn't say and simultaneously telling them they don't "get it". That's distasteful. | ||