I think much of the semantic proximity to evil can be derived straight from the facts? Imagine telling pre-1913 person about the holocaust.

I hate this bot-detection anime girl popping up on my monitor while I pretend to be working. Same goes for the funny pictures at the beginning of some Github readmes. Sorry for complaining about a tangential annoyance, but I haven't seen this particular sentiment expressed yet.

I use a uBlock Origin filter to block the anime girl from loading:

  ! Title: Hide Anubis Image
  */.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/*.webp$image

Normally I don't mind, but on this page it took at least 15 seconds for me.

It is expressed very often.

this was the plan, this was the plan. just wait little bit it get spread more.

Also this is a joke

This scenario was a lot scarier before 2022.

Comment dates on hn frontend are sometimes altered when submissions are merged, do you handle this case properly?

It is handled on the Unlurker front page (you will see a little note that says “time adjusted for second chance”). The replay doesn’t do any adjustment for it, but I think that makes it reflect the reality of when the comments came in since the adjustments are like a temporary bump

For some unexplainable reason your subjective experience happens to be localized in your brain. Sounds pretty special to me.

There is nothing special about that either. LLM's also have self awareness/introspection, or at least a some version of it.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/introspection

Its hard to tell sometimes because we specifically train them to believe they don't.

Thanks for the link, I haven't seen this before and it's interesting.

I don't think the version of self awareness they demonstrated is synonymous with subjective experience. But same thing can be said about any human other then me.

Damn, just let me believe all brains are magical or I'll fall into solipsism.

I like the "what’s left" part of the article. It’s applicable regardless of your preferred flavor of resentment about where things are going.

I wonder if "X is not Y - its' Z" LLM shibboleth is just an artifact of "is not" being a third most common bigram starting with is, just after "is a" and "is the" [0]. It doesn't follow as simply as it does with markov chains, but maybe this is where the tendency originated, and later was trained and RLHFed into the shape that kind of makes sense instead of getting eliminated.

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=is+*

Turing machines are deterministic, brain might not be because of quantum mechanics happening. Of course there is no proof that this is related to creativity.

Turing machines are deterministic if all their inputs are deterministic, which they do not need to be, and if we allow them to be. Indeed, by default, LLMs are by default not deterministic because we intentionally inject randomness.

It doesn't mean we can accurately simulate the brain by swapping its source of nondeterminism with any other PRNG or TRNG. It might just so happen that to simulate ingenuity you have to simulate the universe first.

If the brain does not exceed the Turing computable, then it does mean it is possible to accurately simulate the brain. Not only that, but in that case the brain itself is existence proof that doing so efficiently is possible.

If the brain exceeds the Turing computable, then all bets are off, but we have no evidence to suggest it does, nor that doing so is possible. This was in fact my original argument.

The only viable counter to my argument is demonstrating that there are computable functions outside the Turing computable, and that humans can compute them.

"it's not possible to ignore all of the other stuff a person has said"

I don't know, for me it's not only possible but very easy, not only regarding pedophilia but also his various political opinions I don't agree with.