This got me thinking. People like Joscha Bach and Douglas Hofstadter have posed ideas that we are programs running on a computer, which implies when we ourselves halt, there is nothing, but if we in fact were, there would be someone running that program and deciding whether to boot it up for something else, a set of basic reference rules to keep the program going, and a benevolent intention and desire of the operator to keep it running.
To keep the environment going and developing, you need incentives, so a notion of suffering is necessary, but not the purpose. The purpose would be to use a dynamic between the suffering and the rules to evolve something greater that sustains and improves the overall environment of the program and evolves through other instances of whatever individuals are.
An immortal soul concept works into this where it's like a trained module an operator could rely on to perform in a particular way, and it would get used or reused as was useful to the overall environment. It runs somewhere, or it doesn't, and the suffering piece is just the incentives of the environment it was placed into to develop.
These GPT models aren't sophisticated enough to fully emmulate us, but as a logical mirror and test harness that can reflect pretty much every metaphysical concept we can think up, they may be sufficient.
Sometimes I think of forum updoots as weighting for a language model, and some of these more metacognitive musings need suppression because they would be disruptive to the sustainability of the model. If there were javascript behind this comment form that also used timing from our keystroke patterns to weight paths between these words, it would imbue the model with a kind of "personality," that emmulated what was going on in our minds as a kind of black box.
How would one find out if HN data is being used in GPT or LAMDA models?
These GPT models aren't sophisticated enough to fully emmulate us, but as a logical mirror and test harness that can reflect pretty much every metaphysical concept we can think up, they may be sufficient.
A mirror is a good metaphor. We don't think that the reality we see in a mirror is animated. So too, for the artificial intelligence.
There may be no difference in appearance, but in reality the difference is vast - so vast as to be beyond compare. There is no meaning in the mirrored-self, the reflection does not thinking or have ideas etc. If you struggle to find which of the 2 (you or the reflection) is the real one, using appearance only you will struggle. But then you can laugh and move on - this is not an issue to concern you, you can dismiss it - you know where the awareness is.
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This got me thinking. People like Joscha Bach and Douglas Hofstadter have posed ideas that we are programs running on a computer, which implies when we ourselves halt, there is nothing, but if we in fact were, there would be someone running that program and deciding whether to boot it up for something else, a set of basic reference rules to keep the program going, and a benevolent intention and desire of the operator to keep it running.
To keep the environment going and developing, you need incentives, so a notion of suffering is necessary, but not the purpose. The purpose would be to use a dynamic between the suffering and the rules to evolve something greater that sustains and improves the overall environment of the program and evolves through other instances of whatever individuals are.
An immortal soul concept works into this where it's like a trained module an operator could rely on to perform in a particular way, and it would get used or reused as was useful to the overall environment. It runs somewhere, or it doesn't, and the suffering piece is just the incentives of the environment it was placed into to develop.
These GPT models aren't sophisticated enough to fully emmulate us, but as a logical mirror and test harness that can reflect pretty much every metaphysical concept we can think up, they may be sufficient.
Sometimes I think of forum updoots as weighting for a language model, and some of these more metacognitive musings need suppression because they would be disruptive to the sustainability of the model. If there were javascript behind this comment form that also used timing from our keystroke patterns to weight paths between these words, it would imbue the model with a kind of "personality," that emmulated what was going on in our minds as a kind of black box.
How would one find out if HN data is being used in GPT or LAMDA models?
A mirror is a good metaphor. We don't think that the reality we see in a mirror is animated. So too, for the artificial intelligence.
There may be no difference in appearance, but in reality the difference is vast - so vast as to be beyond compare. There is no meaning in the mirrored-self, the reflection does not thinking or have ideas etc. If you struggle to find which of the 2 (you or the reflection) is the real one, using appearance only you will struggle. But then you can laugh and move on - this is not an issue to concern you, you can dismiss it - you know where the awareness is.