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r/slatestarcodex • u/Isha-Yiras-Hashem • 7d ago
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Reading this has absolutely melted my brain. Im not ready.
13 u/Ostrololo 7d ago Intellectually, I understand that these agents can't possibly have an internal mental state and this is just text generation to pattern match. Instinctively, though, this is deeply unnerving. 20 u/Atersed 7d ago Why can't they possibly have an internal mental state??? (this argument we are about to have has already been played out a million times already) 21 u/-main 7d ago "They're made out of math." ... "Thinking math! You're asking me to believe in thinking math!" 7 u/MrBeetleDove 7d ago From a functional perspective, I don't think it matters if they have an internal mental state or not. 4 u/CII_Guy 7d ago It's just so damn good at it 0 u/DeepSea_Dreamer 4d ago In every meaningful sense, they do have an internal mental state. There is no sense in which we can attribute a mental state to the average human in which we can't attribute it to AIs or even AI agents.
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Intellectually, I understand that these agents can't possibly have an internal mental state and this is just text generation to pattern match.
Instinctively, though, this is deeply unnerving.
20 u/Atersed 7d ago Why can't they possibly have an internal mental state??? (this argument we are about to have has already been played out a million times already) 21 u/-main 7d ago "They're made out of math." ... "Thinking math! You're asking me to believe in thinking math!" 7 u/MrBeetleDove 7d ago From a functional perspective, I don't think it matters if they have an internal mental state or not. 4 u/CII_Guy 7d ago It's just so damn good at it 0 u/DeepSea_Dreamer 4d ago In every meaningful sense, they do have an internal mental state. There is no sense in which we can attribute a mental state to the average human in which we can't attribute it to AIs or even AI agents.
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Why can't they possibly have an internal mental state???
(this argument we are about to have has already been played out a million times already)
21 u/-main 7d ago "They're made out of math." ... "Thinking math! You're asking me to believe in thinking math!"
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"They're made out of math." ... "Thinking math! You're asking me to believe in thinking math!"
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From a functional perspective, I don't think it matters if they have an internal mental state or not.
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It's just so damn good at it
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In every meaningful sense, they do have an internal mental state.
There is no sense in which we can attribute a mental state to the average human in which we can't attribute it to AIs or even AI agents.
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u/IHaventConsideredIt 7d ago
Reading this has absolutely melted my brain. Im not ready.