you could feed bots the archive data and tell each of them to assume one poster's persona each then put them all on an isolated containment board and just give them ambient triggers to post occasionally then we could go spectate and pretend it's 2011 /moe/ again
yes we could make john hammond's little mechanical flea circus
moon
LLMs always were, and always will be, just a mirror in fact, language
moon
in fact, language itself has a specific refractive index
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
okay but what do you think about JEV!
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
but yes language is a mirror or idk it some kinda interesting substrate for sure
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
its like if we took a modern human but didn't teach them any language at all how dumb would they be probably pretty unable to interact with machines and stuff but still with at least some intuition and ability to survive i wonder how well they would be able to learn from their mistakes without being able to write stuff down or tell other people about it just pure wordless reflection and recall
moon
breakdown of the bicameral etc
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yes dude yes
moon
ive been workin on how to measure emergent natural language for a while now
moon
but i tend to get lost in the sauce
moon
is a mirror but eeverything is also a cconversation
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
yea there are many aspects to conversation minds modelling minds
and then also just knowing like when a 'frame' starts and when it ends is such a fluid wet neural network thing that's a struggle for computers
moon
i can say with clarity where i am and where i am not (or what is me and what is not me) but i cannot say with certainty where i start and where i end
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
so true
moon
looking for signs of consciousness in a hall of mirrors maybe only the mirrors were conscious to begin with
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
i believe in your consciousness
moon
i often question whether i have any consciousness at all it often does not feel like it i
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
just need some stimulants
Samu /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\
get manic like meeeeee i'm manic af and i woke up at 5 am today one of those rare backwards sleep schedule days
moon
yeah ive been a bit of that myself got two hours of sleep last night been workin on bonus pay projects and makin good money by my standards these guys still really need coders and software engineers if you interested there's so many projects goin on it's exploding with opportunity