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Comment by samat

2 days ago

Authentic being (Dasein) is absolutely unpredictable. You cannot live in that state all the time, obviously, we shuttle through life on autopilot but still, we catch glimpses of it now and then when interacting with a human being (or being one:).

And I distinctly feel AI outputs lack some of that variance and unpredictability. The fractal nature of natural things also is not there with AI. It's an eery feeling, akin to the uncanny valley.

I think that any good writing is a reflection of that Dasein and reading AI outputs I am convinced there is no 'soul' in AI yet.

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jfengel  2 days ago

I've always struggled with Heidegger, so I'll have to ask for more clarification.

If authentic being-in-itself is truly random, then how can it have identity? It can't have memory and it can't be influenced by events.

idiotsecant  2 days ago

The gamut of human experience is breathtaking in its diversity but individual humans are generally quite predictable. You can identify someone by their mannerisms, by how they walk, by the sound of their breathing. Humans are creatures of habit, and I'd venture to say have an even lower expression space than an LLM on average.

  • lproven  2 days ago

    Sounds like you're veering close to psychohistory.

    Which could, of course, lead to the mother of all crossover universes, in which R Daneel Olivaw, as the inheritor of Hari Seldon's mission, inspired the Butlerian Jihad...

    • jfengel  2 days ago

      Psychohistory is about large groups of humans, parallel to thermodynamics. Individuals are treated as purely random, but aggregate properties can be predicted.

      Here we're talking about individual behavior: you usually choose chocolate ice cream because you, personally, like chocolate. That allows individual predictions, rather than the aggregate ones of psychohistory.

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