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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Likely a prefrontal cortex, the administrative center of the brain and generally host to human consciousness. As well as a dedicated memory system with learning plasticity.

Humans have systems that mirror llms but llms are missing a few key components to be precise replicas of human brains, mostly because it's computationally expensive to consider and the goal is different.

Some specific things the brain has that llms don't directly account for are different neurochemicals (favoring a single floating value per neuron), synaptogenesis, neurogenesis, synapse fire travel duration and myelin, neural pruning, potassium and sodium channels, downstream effects, etc. We use math and gradient descent to somewhat mirror the brain's hebbian learning but do not perform precisely the same operations using the same systems.

In my opinion having a dedicated module for consciousness would bridge the gap, possibly while accounting for some of the missing characteristics. Consciousness is not an indescribable mystery, we have performed tons of experiments and received a whole lot of information on the topic.

As it stands llms are largely reasonable approximations of the language center of the brain but little more. It may honestly not take much to get what we consider consciousness humming in a system that includes an llm as a component.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How do you think god comes into the equation? What do you think about split brain syndrome in which people demonstrate having multiple consciousnesses? If consciousness is based on a metaphysical property why can it be altered with chemicals and drugs? What do you think happens during a lobotomy?

I get that evidence based thinking is generally not compatible with religious postulates, but just throwing up your hands and saying consciousness comes from the gods is an incredibly weak position to hold.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Track autistic people and ignore measles, amazing

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

You mean you aren't into wazaaaaaap, piglatin, roflmao, the R word, cool beans, home skillet, etc?

It is funny how the wheel of slang makes the prior generation uncomfortable for some reason. Time waits for no one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Neovim is basically just vim with easier extension creation. It's pretty good for a terminal editor. If you don't already like vim you may not really enjoy nvim, it's more of a lifestyle than a text editor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Not sure what different advice you're looking for here, you've asked a couple times about the same situation and the advice has been fine.

Are you looking for some miracle that will solve this problem? There isn't one.

You need to talk to your friend. You have sex with him frankly he is more than your friend. Despite you claiming no romantic feelings you have intimate relations and that fundamentally changes a friendship into something different.

You can't become best friends like you used to again, relationships don't work like that, time is a one way street and going back is not allowed. You can move forward with a new and different relationship.

Right now you are choosing money over friendship, that may be acceptable or unacceptable morally to you but it is reality.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Consciousness is an emergent property, generally self awareness and singularity are key defining features.

There is no secret sauce to llms that would make them any more conscious than Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Nintendo continues to demonstrate why my personal boycott continues. What a shitty company.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

How dare you think Google would listen to its users and not the advertisers. Fr though I'm not sure, manifest v3 does use a sandboxing feature but it's unclear at first glance if they are directly related

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For large groups I suppose airbnbs are more reasonable, though it's honestly not that big of a difference in pricing for vacation rentals.

Housekeeping is easy, just put the little do not disturb sign up, they won't bug you.

I don't have an opinion on the other stuff though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah pretty the vast majority of the world's population holds this opinion

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Kinda looks like two nipple meteors in a manga or something.

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