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  • Yeah dude at one point there was no languages and no songs. You can get into “what counts as a language” but at one point there was none. Same with songs.

    Language specifically was pretty unlikely to be an individual effort, but at one point people grunting at each other became something else entirely.

    Your whole “there is nothing new under the sun” way of thinking is just an artifact of the era you were born in.



  • Not what I said, my point is that humans are organic probabilistic thinking machine and LLMs are just an imitation of that. And your assertion that an LLM is never ever gonna be similar to how the brain works is based on what evidence, again?

    Yeah, you reduced humans to probabilistic thinking machines with no evidence at all.

    I didn’t assert that LLMs would definitely never reach AGI but I do think they aren’t a path to AGI. Why do I think that? Because they’ve spent untold billions of dollars and put everything they had into them and they’re still not anywhere close to AGI. Basic research is showing that if anything the models are getting worse.

    Bro, don’t hallucinate an argument I never made, please. I’m only discussing about how the human mind works, yet here you are arguing about human limbs and what it means to be human?

    Where’d you get the idea that you know how the human mind works? You a fucking neurological expert because you misinterpreted some scientific paper?

    I agree there isn’t much to be gained by continuing this exchange. Bye!


  • All I’ve said was that humans thoughts are also probabilistic based on the little we know of them.

    Much of the universe can be modeled as probabilities. So what? I can model a lot of things as different things. That does not mean that the model is the thing itself. Scientists are still doing what scientists do: being skeptical and making and testing hypotheses. It was difficult to prove definitively that smoking causes cancer yet you’re willing to hop to “human thought is just an advanced chatbot” on scant evidence.

    This is just more of you projecting your insecurity onto me and accusing me of doing things you fear.

    No, it’s again a case of you buying the bullshit arguments of tech bros. Even if we had a machine capable of replicating human thought, humans are more than walking brain stems.

    You want proof of that? Take a look at yourself. Are you a floating brain stem or being with limbs?

    At even the most reductive and tech bro-ish, healthy humans are self-fueling, self-healing, autonomous, communicating, feeling, seeing, laughing, dancing, creative organic robots with GI built-in.

    Even if a person one day creates a robot with all or most of these capabilities and worthy of considering having rights, we still won’t be the organic version of that robot. We’ll still be human.

    I think you’re beyond having to touch grass. You need to take a fucking humanities course.