Comment by stuartjohnson12
5 hours ago
Your socio-emotional capabilities are illusory. They are a product of how craving for social acceptance "hacks" your brain and exploits the hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of our equipment as a social species.
Practicing social skills is often disillusioning. Marvin, the sad robot, offers a prediction after autocompleting Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android
its a next word predictor. if youve been convinced it has a brain, i have some magic beans youd be interested in
and if it is a sufficiently accurate next word predictor then it may accurately predict what an agent with socio-emotional skills would use as their next word in which case it will have exhibited socio-emotional skill.
Consider whether it is possible to complete sentences about the world coherently in a human like way without knowing or thinking about the world.
You're saying "next word predictor" as if it's some kind of gotcha.
You're typing on a keyboard, which means you're nothing but a "next keypress predictor". This says very little about how intelligent are you.
not my only trick is it though. human brain engages in all sorts of cognitive enterprises, language formation being just one of them. LLMS are essentially statistical predictors - which is indeed part of what a human brain does but only a small slither of its abilities.
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