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Comment by FrustratedMonky

1 month ago

When you get burned, you learn to fear fire.

Sure, humans come with some baked in weights, but others are learned.

I think the associations are learned but not the feelings are learned.

Like some people feel great joy when an American flag burns while others feel upset.

If you accidentally delete a friends hard drive you'll feel sad but if you were intentionally sabotaging a company you'll feel proud at the success.

i.e. joy and happiness are innate not learned.

See how clinical socio- and psychopaths behave. They only emulate feelings (particularly when it's convenient for them) but they don't have the capacity to feel in their brain. The same is true for LLMs.

  • This is a hollywood level pop-science view. Real people are vastly more complicated and do in fact feel things, even if it's not a "normal" way.