> mfer so is your brain.
replynot it isnt. My brain is a series of organisms responding to various environmental signals that affect each other.
you might be tempted to try to represent it with matrix multiplications, but you have no particular evidence that my brain is itself doing matrix multiplcations
Why? I am only excited about progress that improves life for humans. It seems unlikely that AI will do that, and so far I think it has made life worse for humans. So no, I am not excited about it.
replyI'll join you on the pitchforks. This is the most exciting moment in history.
reply> "durrr it's just matrix multiplications" mfer so is your brain.
replyWhere did you read this?
>"durrr it's just matrix multiplications" mfer so is your brain.
replyTell me you don't know anything about neuroscience without telling me you don't know anything about neuroscience.
The point was that everything can be oversimplified down to dismiss any emergent properties
reply"It's just chemicals"
Like how some morons try to downplay the capacity of pain and emotions in animals: "It's just self-preservation"
"Play is just training for hunting, they're not really having 'fun'" and so on.