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Philosophers were discussing that question far before LLMs were around.

Right, it's an illusion of understanding. There is some sort of symbolic understanding, but that is completely due to the fact that the training data was made by humans who actuall…

I think Searle's Chinese Room argument refutes this. LLMs are simply manipulating symbols, they do not have semantic understanding. This is why hallucinations exist. And Searle's a…

You have first-person knowledge of qualia. I'm not really sure how you could deny that without claiming that qualia doesn't exist. You're claiming some middle ground here that I th…

That is not what a p-zombie is. The p-zombie does not have any qualia at all. If you want to deny the existence of qualia, that's one way a few philosophers have gone (Dennett), bu…

Why haven't zero knowledge proofs shined in this area? Can anyone explain?

This is relatable, mine is somewhat similar. It feels like a very specific version of performance anxiety that unfortunately affects the most banal social interactions. It is obvio…

That is only true if consciousness is physical and the result of some physics going on in the human brain. We have no idea if that's true.

>Isn't consciousness an emergent property of brains? Probably not.

Yes, they can't have understanding or intentionality.

Pretty easy to fix: [2] 3.3.4 Date of Issuance. To determine the record date for ownership of Common Stock shares (whether issued as a book entry or certificate), ask: Were the Com…

Is this really verbal reasoning? It's just a logic problem.

It correlates, which could also explain a link in the opposite direction. Secondary sex characteristics sometimes have nothing to do with overall fitness. You can see this most cle…

It's just people coping with guilt about not giving to charity honestly. That, and ad hominem attacks on the people involved. You see people giving kidneys away and there are still…

I cannot think of a reason to prefer to help a neighbor over someone who is vastly more in need who is further away. I think that's the main thrust of the argument.

I don't think Zeno's paradoxes have truly been proven false.

It was probably used in the Silk Road investigation.

I've used it for identifying dominant colors in images.

Using the words "black dresser" or "brown dresser" maybe?

I meant the opposite. It seems like even amongst the relatively normal group of people I know, the rate of sexlessness seems higher than these stats suggest.

These numbers seem kind of low to me, even when I think of people in my life anecdotally. I wonder what is going on there.

You can just claim that omniscience and omnipotence do not require that you can do logically impossible things. For instance, God couldn't will that 2+2=5, or that he could create …

It's true though. Not us in particular, but 99% of smartphone users

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/

Algorithms have been developed for quantum computers that could be potentially effective at breaking public key cryptosystems whose security relies on the difficulty of solving cer…