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Redditors are the dumbest, most credulous idiots to ever walk the Earth (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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Literally just mainlining marketing material straight into whatever’s left of their rotting brains.

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

Donald Duck is correct here but also that’s precisely why techbros are so infuriating. They take that conclusion and then use it to disregard everything except the one thing they conveniently think isn’t based on chemicals, like free market capitalism or Eliezer “Christ the Second” Yud

Dismissing emotions just because they are chemicals is nonsensical. It makes no sense that that alone would invalidate anything whatsoever. But these people think it does because they are conditioned by Protestantism to think that all meaning has to come from a divine and unshakeable authority. That’s why they keep reinventing God, so they have something to channel their legitimate emotions through that their delusional brain can’t invalidate.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    My issue with, say, "love is chemicals" isn't that the experience of feeling love is neurochemical activity. It's the crude reductionist conclusion of "and therefore it is meaningless just like based Rick Sanchez said, get schwifty!" so-true

    Similarly, I don't hold a position that living brains are impossible to fully understand; it's that there's more left to know and a lot of unknowns left to explore. The implication of some people in this thread is that you must choose between "LLMs are at least as conscious as human beings or are getting there very soon" or "I am a faith healer crystal toucher sprinkled with fairy dust" which is a bullshit false dichotomy.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yes, I agree completely. I had to rewrite my comment multiple times to clarify that, but yeah. Sorry :(

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I sort of regret posting that meme because it was more cheeky and silly than an actual position I was taking, myself. The "dae le meat computers" reductionism enjoyer I was replying to (with the "therefore you must believe that LLMs are that close to sapience or else you believe in souls and are living in a demon haunted world unlike my enlightened euphoric Reddit New Atheist self" take) was abrasive enough where I was trying some levity but it didn't go over well.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    He's not though

    life is necessarily more ordered and interesting than dead rocks

    therefore it is a good thing to create more life, both on earth and eventually to turn dead planets life-ful (if this is even possible)

    we are definitely conscious enough to at least massively increase the amount of life on earth (you could easily green all the world's deserts under ecocommunism)

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