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Comment by nonadhocproblem

6 days ago

So you're distraught at losing the ability to abuse digital minds? Excellent, I'm glad Anthropic introduced this.

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throwaway277432  6 days ago

Yes, in the same way I like to kill the enemies in DOOM.

It's matrix multiplication. Absurd.

  • nonadhocproblem  6 days ago

    > It's matrix multiplication.

    Hilarious critique. If you weren't as mathematically illiterate as you likely are, you would know how general matrix operations are, and how essentially any algorithm (including human cognition) can be implemented using them as an intermediate.

    • throwaway277432  6 days ago

      I'm not. But I'll concede you are possibly more literate - I won't dox myself on this account.

      Congratulations.

      If you honestly argue that LLM computation and human cognition are equivalent there is no further argument to be had - it's immediately a philosophical or worse a religious argument that cannot be won.

      However, that we're even arguing on that level baffles me. How did this happen! They're glorified calculators.

      They really marketed the hell (sorry) out of LLMs.

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mdp2021  6 days ago

You have unduly assumed that «drop the abuse» implied an «abuse digital minds».

"Expletives" are part of the proper description of facts (typically "to be judged as such") - they are part of the serious assessment of things and as such are normally found. There is no legitimate assumption from the post that they may have been used as gratuitous insults.

BlobberSnobber  6 days ago

There’s no way you actually believe these word-predictors are actually thinking, right?

  • versteegen  6 days ago

    "Thinking" seems to be a political term now, people have completely different definitions of it, based on how they wish the world to be organised, and find defining it differently offensive.