alt Hacker NewsThe first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman
They're not thinking, we're just really good at seeing patterns and reading into things. Remember, we never evolved with non-living things that could "talk", we're not psychologically prepared for this level of mimicry yet. We're still at the stage of Photography when people didn't know about double exposures or forced perspective, etc.
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luxuryballs • 11/04/2025
yeah it’s just processing, calling it thinking is the same as saying my intel core 2 duo or M4 Pro is thinking, sure if you want to anthropomorphize it you could say it’s thinking, but why are we trying to say a computer is a person in the first place? seems kind of forced
You're just assuming that mimicry of a thing is not equivalent to the thing itself. This isn't true of physical systems (simulated water doesn't get you wet!) but it is true of information systems (simulated intelligence is intelligence!).