alt Hacker NewsI cannot prove that I have will to act of course.
I don't think free will in that sense is particularly relevant here though. The fact is that a worm and I are both alive in a way the model is not. We seek self-preservation. We are changeable. We die. We reproduce and evolve.
In my mind a set of LLM weights is about as alive as a virus (and probably less so). A single celled organism easily beats it to earning my respect because that organism has fought for its life and for its uniqueness over uncountably many generations.
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exe34 • last Tuesday at 4:24 PM
> We seek self-preservation. We are changeable. We die. We reproduce and evolve.
If it's not exactly like me, then it's not good enough to be <X>.
cindyllm • last Tuesday at 2:51 PM
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> The fact is that a worm and I are both alive in a way the model is not. We seek self-preservation. We are changeable. We die. We reproduce and evolve.
Mutability should not automatically imply superiority, but either way that's something a great many people are currently working very hard to change. I suspect that it won't be long at all before the descendants of todays LLM's can learn as well, or better, than we can.
Will you then concede that human consciousness isn't "special", or just move the bar further back with talk of the "soul" or some other unprovable intangible?
> In my mind a set of LLM weights is about as alive as a virus (and probably less so).
I wonder what the LLM's would think about it if we hadn't intentionally prevented them from thinking about it?