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A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient
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By the same logic, you could prove that we are not sentient.
Engineers need to stop trying to do the job of philosophers. LLMs are not sentient, but that tells us nothing about what gives rise to sentience or whether silicon is a substrate that could host a sentient consciousness.
I'm still not convinced most people I speak to at work are sentient.
They are probably sentient. Now sapience.. is another issue altogether.
Nah, they are sentient, but they have learned that acting sentient is hardly a profitable asset in many cases.
Mindlessly babbling credible sounding stuff in constant shameless bluffing, that's the way to get ahead.
So now that tech has made a constant shameless bluffing technology, it's no wonder the same people that live that way are super excited.
I'm pretty sure many of them, when they get home and close the door behind them, they just stare at the wall until it's time to go out again.
big issue is that "Scentience" is a vibes based definition. I don't think we have a working definition that we can use.
in the past it was argued (engire global economy based on) that black people weren't scientient.
The annoying part is that now, "what is scientience" isn't an abstract esoteric philosophical question. but a material question we are ignoring with serious real life implications.