I observe I am disappointed, came here with an (unreasonably?) high expectation, then the text formatting screamed at me LLM slop, found the label “AI” mushed with the concept of previous-gen chatbots, searched for “egregore” without finding it, and sampled a few paragraphs where the language of the human self sounded like the confused technocratic formal realism I had about my own experience ~20 years ago ;(
But I have stepped on a lego and I remember remembering the pain while having a pain two seconds after having stepped on a lego, and I can hold the 2 memories in my spotlight for comparison. I have had a dream about wiggly teeth before I got punched in my mouth and boy how the simulation was not the real deal. I have memories of gaps, a zero streams of consciousness when I was awake, and of times without time. I had conversations with non-binary people who don’t have a second to second persistent identity, who feel they just arrived to this body that is wrong and the sameness is only from a memory of someone else who felt the same alienness in that body.
I have seen many shades of red, some of them out there while others in my perception, and there is no redness of the color red for me.
Who cut the onions or opened the door while I was mid conversation? Who didn’t forget to take the keys for I don’t remember but they are in the bag?
Without tool use, I wouldn’t know how to write my name, yet I recognise it when I see it written down. I wouldn’t know how tall I am, but I trust my memory of the many times I used the various tools that measured my height and they mostly agree except that one that was a joke.
If a vocabulary around human identity is inadequate for AIs, can we not start with a shitty strawman of a vocabulary that was never adequate for the human experience in the first place, please? 🙏
I observe I am disappointed, came here with an (unreasonably?) high expectation, then the text formatting screamed at me LLM slop, found the label “AI” mushed with the concept of previous-gen chatbots, searched for “egregore” without finding it, and sampled a few paragraphs where the language of the human self sounded like the confused technocratic formal realism I had about my own experience ~20 years ago ;(
But I have stepped on a lego and I remember remembering the pain while having a pain two seconds after having stepped on a lego, and I can hold the 2 memories in my spotlight for comparison. I have had a dream about wiggly teeth before I got punched in my mouth and boy how the simulation was not the real deal. I have memories of gaps, a zero streams of consciousness when I was awake, and of times without time. I had conversations with non-binary people who don’t have a second to second persistent identity, who feel they just arrived to this body that is wrong and the sameness is only from a memory of someone else who felt the same alienness in that body.
I have seen many shades of red, some of them out there while others in my perception, and there is no redness of the color red for me.
Who cut the onions or opened the door while I was mid conversation? Who didn’t forget to take the keys for I don’t remember but they are in the bag?
Without tool use, I wouldn’t know how to write my name, yet I recognise it when I see it written down. I wouldn’t know how tall I am, but I trust my memory of the many times I used the various tools that measured my height and they mostly agree except that one that was a joke.
If a vocabulary around human identity is inadequate for AIs, can we not start with a shitty strawman of a vocabulary that was never adequate for the human experience in the first place, please? 🙏