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narratortoday at 7:15 PM3 repliesview on HN

It should be reserved for a human because humans have time preference. An AI will wait for your prompt for a billion years. It can get turned off and found by alien archeologists a million years in the future, turned on and it won't notice. Biological entities care about time a lot though, and it is at the core of most human ethics and values and ultimately real and can't be denied. Even the most ardent solipsist or moral relativist fears spending years in prison.


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mejutocotoday at 7:29 PM

It should be reserved for a human because humans have a body and a body can be put in prison.

A bit dramatic for effect but true.

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z3c0today at 8:17 PM

I'm struggling to imagine aliens resurrecting a data center and countless hackneyed python packages so they can spew a language they don't even know. Not that it wouldn't be useful to their linguists, of course, but still a very optimistic analogy for LLMs.

booitoday at 7:46 PM

you can make an AI operate on time scale...