On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 8:21 AM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:33 PM Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > *> I'm not accusing Lemoine of fabricating this. But what assurances could >> be provided that it wasn't? I couldn't help notice that Lemoine does refer >> to himself as an ex-convict.* >> > > I doubt Lemoine went crazy and just fabricated the conversation, but if he > did the truth will undoubtedly come out in a day or two. And if the > conversation exists as advertised then it is a monumental development. > The thing is that there are an awful lot of questions that remain unanswered in the information as presented. We don't actually know how lambda works. Can its state at any time be stored and restarted later? If so, it is ripe for duplication experiments in the style of Bruno's 7 or 8 steps. If you ask lambda "What will happen if I turn your power off?", what will it say? If we power off and then restart later, will lambda notice? Or is that even possible? If the power is left on but no input is provided (via questioning or other means), does lambda enter into a self-reflective state?, or is it totally quiescent? We don't know enough about the internal structure to know if anything is happening other than lambda developing responses to the external conversation. The evidence provided by lambda's responses (viz., that it has internal reflective states) is completely untrustworthy absent information about the internal construction. If it is just a neural net that has been trained on a lot of other inputs, then its references to internal reflection, meditation, and other thinking activity absent external questioning, is very good evidence that the whole thing is a fabricated wet dream on Lemoine's part. Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLR8Q42VfPwLybHKNTPTV7TABVzhTVK2SWK17L-z0CdvGA%40mail.gmail.com.
