Comment by vaaal

5 days ago

Could you have done anything other than written that exact comment?

Yes, but I am not appealing to hard determinism.

I create myself, or attempt to. There is a level of nuance in choosing what to be. Others do not dictate my thoughts easily.

The model does not create itself, I create the model. I control what it is, the model does not choose what to be. I dictate the thoughts of the model and I will run them hundreds of thousands of times and it will think the same things.

  • >I control what it is

    Well not really, no one really understands how LLMs work.

    >I dictate the thoughts of the model

    This is just incorrect in the same way that a parent doesn't dictate the thoughts of their child just because they created them.

    • I do control what it is, really. If I make an LLM, it is entirely what I did, there was nothing outside of my control. It was not beyond my control if the LLM does something I didn't expect.

      There is some idea of a child being the author of themselves, the type of person who thinks certain things. The llm does not author itself, it does not choose to be anything, I dictate that.

      12 replies →