Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?

Post by smoldesu » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 5:02 PM UTC

naasking wrote: post #360

smoldesu wrote: post #355

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Fair enough. I just flat-out disagree; nothing I've seen suggests that software "could be" sentient. The burden of proof is yours, if you want to state that software has the potential for sentience.

The burden of proof has already been met. The Bekenstein Bound already tells us that any finite volume contains finite information, and any finite system can therefore be perfectly reproduced by a finite state machine. The human brain and body are finite volumes, therefore they can be perfectly replicated by a finite state machine. Unless you believe in some form of dualism, this reproduction necessarily includes sen…

Post by garfieldnate » Wed, Nov 22, 2023, 1:25 AM UTC

mock-possum wrote: post #349

garfieldnate wrote: post #342

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What's most surprising to me there is that she actually recognized Snoopy as a dog. He's a pretty abstracted drawing, walking on two feet and pointing with human hands. There's something interesting to be said about perceptual development there. I believe that Daniel Everett said that even the adult Piraha couldn't understand abstracted 2D drawings at all.

If we were indoctrinated into the tradition of keeping capybaras as pets then she probably would have assumed snoopy was a capy. As it stands - he’s not a cat, he’s not a bird, so he must be a dog.