Could you have done anything other than written that exact comment?

Yes, but I am not appealing to hard determinism.

I create myself, or attempt to. There is a level of nuance in choosing what to be. Others do not dictate my thoughts easily.

The model does not create itself, I create the model. I control what it is, the model does not choose what to be. I dictate the thoughts of the model and I will run them hundreds of thousands of times and it will think the same things.

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Jtarii 2 hours ago | parent [-]

>I control what it is

Well not really, no one really understands how LLMs work.

>I dictate the thoughts of the model

This is just incorrect in the same way that a parent doesn't dictate the thoughts of their child just because they created them.

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lukewarm707 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I do control what it is, really. If I make an LLM, it is entirely what I did, there was nothing outside of my control. It was not beyond my control if the LLM does something I didn't expect.

There is some idea of a child being the author of themselves, the type of person who thinks certain things. The llm does not author itself, it does not choose to be anything, I dictate that.

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mianos 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This is not how it works. LLMs at large scale have emergent properties. They are not just a box of 'if-then-else' statements. That was the major revelation when they scaled them up. They are doing beyond what that naive view of 'if-then-else' expects.

	▲	lukewarm707 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't see anything inaccurate in my comment. "If I make an LLM, it is entirely what I did, there was nothing outside of my control." True? "The llm does not author itself, it does not choose to be anything" Also true?