The value of my portfolio dips too, but I don’t actually lose anything unless I sell. I just hold and wait for prices to recover - as they always have so far. In fact, when the market drops I buy even more, because the same money gets me more shares. People don’t lose their savings because of a crash; they lose them because they panic and sell for less than they paid.
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In this context, "AI bro" clearly refers to the creators, not the end users - which is what your link is about. Users aren’t the ones who “taught it to speak like a corporate middle manager.” That was the AI company leaders and engineers. When I asked who “they” are, I was asking for names. Someone tried to dodge by saying “AI bros and their fans,” but that phrase itself distinguishes between two groups. I wasn’t asking about the fans.
Let me rephrase: name a person responsible for training an AI to sound like a corporate middle manager who also believes their LLM is conscious.
"They taught AI to talk like a middle manager.." isn't refering to the people at /r/MyBoyfirendIsAI. Those are users, not the creators of it.
Show me one "AI bro" claiming LLMs are consciouss.
No. Loss of vision alone would be enough.
You're falsely assuming that everyone has to deal with the same emotional control issues as you do.
Who exactly are these "they" whose thinking LLMs are conscious?
Luckily I get my water from the tap.
My savings are invested in the stock market, and the returns I get from that are higher than the interest on my mortgage. If I liquidated my investments to pay off the house, the savings from not paying mortgage interest would still be less than what I’d make from the market over the same period. I’d rather use the profits from my investments to cover the mortgage interest - that way I still have money left over. If I did the opposite, I’d lose that extra money.
I’m not sure what you’re asking about exactly. If it’s the key to happiness you’re after, I’ll let you know once I find it. But when it comes to meaning - and feeling like I’m valued by society - that shift happened for me when I went from being an employee to being self-employed.
In my old job, building mostly apartment blocks and schools, I never interacted with the end users. Nobody appreciated a job well done, and nobody ever said thank you. The only thing that mattered was how fast you got it done. It wasn’t much different from working on an assembly line.
These days, people call me when they’ve got a problem with their house and I show up to solve it. They’re usually relieved I’m there, and many are just as glad to have someone to talk to - especially the elderly, who make up about half my customer base. I’ve done everything from recovering lost TV channels to full kitchen remodels, with very few limits on what I can help with. People are almost always incredibly kind and hospitable - nearly everyone offers coffee and snacks, and a few even cook for me.
On top of that, I get a ton of repeat customers, which tells me they were satisfied with my previous work. Honestly, I can’t imagine a more fulfilling feeling than getting genuine gratitude for what I do.
Being in debt isn't synonymous with being broke.
I could pay off my house tomorrow if I wanted, but financially it doesn’t make sense - so I keep the debt. That doesn’t mean my net worth is negative or that I don’t have disposable income.
I dont personally think this is quite fair either. Here's a quote from the first link:
To me, as someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about consciousness (the fact of subjective experience) this seems like a perfectly reasonable take. Consciousness itself is entirely a subjective experience. There's zero evidence of it outside of our own minds. It can't be measured in any way. We can't even prove that other people are consciouss. It's a relatively safe assumption to make but there's no conclusive way to prove it. We simply assume they are because they seem like it.
In philosophy there's this concept of a "philosophical zombie" which means a creature which is outwardly indistinquishable from a human but it completely lacks any internal experience. This is basically what the robots in the TV series "west world" were - or at least so they thought.
This is all to say that there is a point after which AI system so convincingly mimics a conscious being that it's not entirely ridiculous thing to worry that what if it actually is like something to be this system and whether we're actually keeping a conscious being as a slave. If we had a way to prove that it is not consciouss then there's no issue there but we can't. People used to justify mistreatment of animals by claiming they're not consciouss either but very few people thinks that anymore. I'm not saying an LLM might be conscious, I'm relatively certain that they're not but they're also the most concsious seeming thing we've ever created and they'll just keep getting better and better. I'd say that there is a point after which these systems act consciouss so convincingly that one would need to basically be a psychopath to mistreat them.