[yeasurebut]

Musicians don’t spit out an album in one sitting and they’re highly trained in theory. They get bored and tired of a process and take breaks. They come up with an album of loops composed together over time.

AIs state will forever be constrained to the limits of human cognition and behavior as that’s what it’s trained on.

I read published research all year. Circular reasoning. Tautology. It’s all over PhD thesis.

There’s no “global structure” to humanity. Relativity is a bitch.

Seeing the world through the vacuum of embedded inner monologue ignores the constraints of the physical one. It’s exhausting dealing with the mentality some clean room idea we imagine in a hammock can actually exist in a universe being ripped asunder by entropy.

It’s living in memory of what we were sold; some ideal state. Very akin to religious and nation state idealism.

[mjburgess]

I think it's deeply depressing that AI has been sold as something even capable of modelling anything humans do; and quite depressing that this comment exists.

"AI" is just taking `mean()` over our choice of encodings of our choice of measurements of our selection of things we've created.

There is as much "alike humans" in patterns in tree bark.

AI is an embarrassingly dumb procedure, incapable of the most basic homology with anything any animal has ever done; us especially.

We are embedded in our environments, on which we act, and which act on us. In doing so we physically grow, mould our structure and that of our environment, and develop sensory-motor conceptualisations of the world. Everything we do, every act of the imagination or of movement of our limbs, is preconditioned-on and symptomatic-of our profound understanding of the world and how we are in it.

The idea that `mean(424,34324,223123,3424,....)` even has any revelance to us at all is quite absurd. The idea that such a thing might sound pleasant thru' a speaker, irrelevant.

This is a product of i dont know what. On the optimist side, a cultish desire to see Science produce a new utopia. On the pessimisst side, a likewise delusional desire to see Humans as dumb machines.

What a sad state!

[pessimizer]

I lack your confidence, and find it a bit religious.

> The idea that `mean(424,34324,223123,3424,....)` even has any revelance to us at all is quite absurd.

Most of what I say to anyone is exactly this.

When I'm about to give anyone any information, I look back at all of the relevant past information that I can recall (through word and sensory association, not by logic, unless I have a recollection of an associated internal or external dialog that also used logical rules.) I multiply those by strength of recollection and similarity of situation (e.g. can I create a metaphor for the current situation from the recalled one?). I take the mean, then I share it, along with caveats about the aforementioned strength of recollection and similarity of situation.

This is what it feels like I actually do. Any of these steps can be either taken consciously or by reflex. It's not hidden.

> I think it's deeply depressing that AI has been sold as something even capable of modelling anything humans do

This is a bizarre position. All computers ever do is model things that humans do. All a computer consists of is a receptacle for placing human will that will continue to apply that will after the human is removed. They are a way of crystallizing will in a way that you can sustain it with things (like electricity) other than the particular combination of air, water, food, space, pressure, temperature, etc. that is a person. An overflow drain is a computer that models the human will. An automatic switch/regulator is the basic electrical model of human will, and a computer is just a bunch of those stitched together in a complementary way.