Comment by mjr00
2 years ago
If you genuinely believe your brain is just a token prediction machine, why do you continue to exist? You're just consuming limited food, water, fuel, etc for the sake of predicting tokens, like some kind of biological crypto miner.
Genetic and memetic/intellectual immortality, of course. Biologically there can be no other answer. We are here to spread and endure, there is no “why” or end-condition.
If your response to there not being a big ending cinematic to life with a bearded old man and a church choir, or all your friends (and a penguin) clapping and congratulating you is that you should kill yourself immediately, that’s a you problem. Get in the flesh-golem, shinzo… or Jon Stewart will have to pilot it again.
I'm personally a lot more than a prediction engine, don't worry about me.
For those who do believe they are simply fleshy token predictors, is there a moral reason that other (sentient) humans can't kill -9 them like a LLaMa3 process?
Morality is just what worked as set of rules for groups of humans to survive together. You can try to kill me if you want, but I will try to fight back and society will try to punish you.
And all of the ideas of morality and societal rules come from this desire to survive and desire to survive exists because this is what natural selection obviously selects for.
There is also probably a good explanation why people want to think that they are special and more than prediction engines.
Yes, specifically that a person's opinions are never justification for violence committed against them, no matter how sure you might be of your righteousness.
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Well, yes. I won't commit suicide though, since it is an evolutionarily developed trait to keep living and reproducing since only the ones with that trait survive in the first place.
If LLMs and humans are the same, should it be legal for me to terminate you, or illegal for me to terminate an LLM process?
What do you mean by "the same"?
Since I don't want to die I am going to say it should be illegal for you to terminate me.
I don't care about an LLM process being terminated so I have no problem with that.