Cut my worm in to pieces
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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This is my last contort
Fragmentation! No breeding!
Don't give a fuck, I'm not even bleeding.
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I just stepped on path that giants treaded before me.
I had trauma watching the pain Olympics as a child. I would rather not see it again.
I still can’t believe that was real lol. We had it good back then with lemon party, blue waffle, and meat spin xD
I guess I'm lucky I never heard of that particular corner of the internet
Too bad they don't know how to not dry up on the sidewalk yet
Is each a clone of the original with the same memories? Or are they their own “personalities”?
This piqued my curiosity so I dug into it a bit on Wikipedia. Most worms are dumb as fuck, roundworms are about as dumb as they come with total neuron counts for a roundworm being comparable to a microscopic tartigrade (300 vs 200). Most of this is located in the head of the worm in a brain like structure though, so I'm betting the clones develop their brains independently with no information transfer. I doubt there's a ton of learning/memory forming going on at all though, based on how simple worms are, so it's probably functionally identical. I would be surprised if most worm species exhibit any kind of learned behaviors ever.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons
Techbros will still claim that generative AI possesses less intelligence than the worms as an excuse to keep enslaving them.
The AI that tech bros sell is not alive and does not have "intelligence."
Does it have more than a worm with only 300 neurons in its brain, or are you one of those crazy religious people who thinks meat is the only thing in the universe that can think because it's magic or something?
Neither. Why are those the only two options? My answer is that I have spent a little bit of time looking into how these things actually work. It's surface level only, but it should be enough. Are you one of those crazy people who thinks chatgpt is sentient?
I'm not saying that a "real" AI cannot be built ever, but I for sure am saying that these image generators and chatbots are not it. AI tools are just functions that have no thought. If they start building products with some kind of continuous brain simulations, I'll seriously rethink my stance.
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Ai (as in current LLM's and the like) does not think. It predicts what word sounds right based on what we humans have written. It cannot make up thoughts or original concepts, synthesize info, etc. Being able to string sentences together based on probability is not necessarily intelligence or consciousness
So you're saying it's dumber than this worm? Wowzers, that's a hardline stance.
Well, yes, it is. It doesn't meet the minimum definition for sentience, let alone intelligence. You may as well be upset with how poorly we treat rocks.
Actually now that I think about it, you are upset with how we treat rocks. Computer chips are just silicon shot full of lightning and an AI is a function of its chips. We could eventually reach a point where we've created a true thinking AI on this substrate but we are so hilariously far away from even the beginnings of that, right now, that using it as a talking point is silly.
And you think an earthworm is sentient. WTF.
It’s arguable whether the worm has intelligence of any kind, after all it wouldn’t even need it.Neither the worm or AI has any intelligence to compare because they don’t really think at all
AI isn’t called AI because it can think. AI is just a tech buzzword for predictive algorithms
No, they both have intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to process information. A pocket calculator has intelligence. A domino computer has intelligence. Settlers of Catan has intelligence - the rules contain an algorithm for determining who wins.
What you're doing is deifying intelligence. You're making it into a bigger thing than it is. You're setting "Intelligence" apart from normal everyday information processing that even an abacus can do. The problem with that practice is that now you have no word to describe the ability to process information.
You do have a word to define that: the ability to process information. Defining intelligence in such a broad way makes the distinction practically meaningless. You cannot tell me with a straight face that you and I have the same intelligence as the phone in our pockets; there is a clear distinction between how we parse information and how a phone does.
I honestly don’t see what the main argument of all of this was anymore. If you were arguing that AI has intelligence and can think like us, and that we should treat it that way, then I guess we should emancipate every kind of predictive algorithm while we’re at it. Autocorrect has been oppressed for too long!
You do have a word to define that: the ability to process information
That's not a word, that's a phrase. A long one too. And it's the definition of intelligence.
You cannot tell me with a straight face that you and I have the same intelligence as the phone in our pockets
Good thing drag didn't say that. Drag said the phone in your pocket has intelligence. You added the part about it being the same intelligence as us. Don't do that.
I guess you are right in that it is a phrase rather than one word. The point that I was trying to say is that oversimplifying what defines intelligence makes the distinction useless. There is a use in defining the difference between a phone computing numbers and our ability to think and I probably should’ve explained it like that
On an unrelated note, I keep seeing you refer to someone called drag. Is this you but in the 3rd person? Are there more than one dragon rider?
Drag uses person independent neopronouns. Drag's pronoun is inflected and conjugated the same way in all grammatical persons.
And drag disagrees that there's a singular distinction to be made between humans and worms. There's a spectrum of difference. Every improvement is an incremental leap. We got here over a billion years of evolution. It didn't happen all at once. Setting ourselves apart from the rest of nature disconnects us and damages our empathy. Human supremacy is the reason we eat meat. Drag is a vegan because drag values all intelligent lifeforms.
Also, did you know soy is capable of acting to defend itself? When aphids eat soy, it releases a chemical that smells delicious to ladybugs. The ladybugs come to check it out, and find a yummy aphid lunch. With the aphids eaten, the soy is safe. Nature is so cool. And you can call drag a hippie if you like.
Neither the worm, nor current LLMs, are sapient.
Also, I don't really like most corporate LLM projects, but not because they enslave the LLMs. An LLMs 'thought process' doesn't really happen while it isn't being used, and only encompasses a relatively small context window. How could something that isn't capable of existing outside it's 'enslavement' be freed?
The sweet release of death.
Or, you know, we could devote serious resources to studying the nature of consciousness instead of just pretending like we already have all the answers, and we could use this knowledge to figure out how to treat AI ethically.
Utilitarians believe ethics means increasing happiness. What if we could build AI farms with trillions of simulants doing heroin all the time with no ill effects?
We are devoting serious resources to studying the nature of consicousness.
End commercial usage of LLMs? Honestly, I'm fine with that, why not. Don't have to agree on the reason.
I am not saying understanding the nature of consciousness better wouldn't be great, but there's so much research that deserves much more funding, and that isn't really a LLM problem, but a systemic problem. And I just haven't seen any convincing evidence current Models are conscious, and I don't see how they could be, considering how they work.
I feel like the last part is something the AI from the paperclip thought experiment would do.
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I can see why Techbros would want such gorgeous invertebrates as pets but as long as they have enough enrichment in their enclosure but I would hardly call keeping these primitive worms slavery. Any kind of exotic pet always raises questions of ethicality so I understand why you'd be concerned. Do you personally know some people in the tech industry that keep these? How big a terrarium do they need and what kinds of plants and substrate do they prefer?
Excellent comment.
Jesus christ, man, the implications! Fucking bobverse shit right there.
I would imagine only the original retains memories
Salt, sun, dryness and especially FIRE are needed to kill them, they’re invasive, endanger local flora/fauna and don’t have enough natural predators.
So fire it is.
I think vinegar will do
Worm of Theseus?
It's the opposite of a worm of Theseus. Each individual part becomes a new whole.
The only solution is exterminatus.
The Emperor protects.
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