No, LLMs don’t “pose interesting philosophical questions”.

[aesthr@wandering.shop]

No, LLMs don’t “pose interesting philosophical questions”. You just haven’t studied any philosophy beyond “the trolley problem really makes you think, huh?”.

[aesthr@wandering.shop]

@veronica but we already knew that, it’s not really that interesting

[aparrish@friend.camp]

@aesthr right? i feel like we're going through this period—most annoyingly in academia—of everyone in every field dedicating themselves to studying and discussing literally the most boring thing in the history of planet earth

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@aesthr

Does it matter that someone managed to build a philosophical zombie?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/

I think there was some debate over whether or not zombies could exist, but LLM chatbots seem very much like this kind of zombie.

[aesthr@wandering.shop]

@alienghic i don’t think they do, because they don’t behave like real people. They don’t even approach talking like real people.

The whole point of the philosophical zombie is that the illusion is perfect.

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@aesthr

I guess the problem is a lot of humans are really easy to trick.

Seems almost like they want to believe and are working to help the illusion.

[karlheinzhaslip@climatejustice.social]

@aesthr Its the same question since Von Neumann Machine first was a thing.
Electric Math is weird and fast and can form any kind of symbols that mean all kinds of things to us...