It's still deeply confusing to me that people reach for "the AI is self-aware" as an explanation here, over "LLMs are really good at weaving narratives consistent with their prompts".

Not very impressed with the genre of AI-posting that involves coming up with contrived prompts and then pretending that you've tapped into some deep layer of consciousness within the LLM

Theory: AI will achieve superhuman intelligence because people are getting stupider

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Is it my imagination, or is the pace of these kinds of discoveries increasing lately? theguardian.com/society/articl…

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It's always fun to notice how "the brain/consciousness is quantum" is heavily woo-coded, but "the brain/consciousness is explained by physics" is the opposite, despite "quantum" being simply a subset of physics

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