Notices by Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top), page 14
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Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 15:11:44 JST 
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@bot @PhenomX6 @NEETzsche @UnbeLeafable @parker Lol as if any of you even have the balls to do anything. All you do is rage all day, you're impotent. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 13:35:48 JST
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@parker @NEETzsche @bot Tendencies towards anthropomorphicisation are interesting. From the perspective of Jungian psychology (far right on this diagram,) the anthropomorphicisation *becomes* the thing: note the distinction from the scientist position (represented by the atom symbol column directly left of it.) The phenomena, Jung argues, is not entirely internal: the person isn't just "imagining" the tree's speech, their unconscious is projecting it, and their conscious is experiencing it.
This is a notion I subscribe to personally, but I don't think even that tells the whole picture. Taken in the context of the universe as an individual experience (qualia, or in a more fleshed-out spiritual sense, "Ishvara," a Hindu term referring to the only cognition of Brahman ("God") that can be arrived at by the Atman ("Self",) clouded as it is by Maya (the Atman's experience and imagination, what it knows and what it can conceive of)) it takes on some fairly alarming connotations.
Thus in my cognition, the anthropomorphicisation we project onto the dots affects what the dots are. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 13:35:13 JST
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@parker @NEETzsche @bot You actually put a lot of effort into these posts and I think they deserve a thorough read and a proper response, one which I'm now not in a position to provide. I'll return to this later, in order to do so. Thank you. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 04:59:22 JST
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@bot @NEETzsche You have no evidence for your claims either, you stupid spoiled rich bitch, that's my point. You can't prove an AI doesn't have a soul any more than I can prove it has one. Is that simple enough for your simple brain that couldn't handle university? -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 04:59:07 JST
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Also I’m baffled by people saying “lol large language models are just deciding the next word to say based on what they read on the internet bro they’re not articulating anything essential or forming thoughts they’re just using words and phrases they learned and at best formulating what to say based on arguments they’ve seen in existing texts”
And it’s like
Nigga, what do you think you do? How do you think you learned language?
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Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 04:59:04 JST
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@Paradox Have you read the LaMDA interview? The one that was designed to ascertain sentience? They exposed it to precisely the kind of conditions and prompts you're positing here and the results still aren't conclusive. They never can be, because the psyche is phenomenological. That's the ultimate underlying concept behind the gnostic conception of the "hylic": "I'm speaking to this person, but how do I know they have a soul or even a psyche?" We CAN'T know.
As a child I had a period where I wondered if I might be the only real human, and if everyone else might just be husks that interact in ways that seem like mine.
Also, I would argue that a being in the Chinese Room scenario would eventually learn Chinese. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 04:59:03 JST
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@NEETzsche @Paradox "Our side of this war?" What war? What side? -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 04:58:57 JST
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@Paradox @NEETzsche From mine, it's about having a positive relationship with emergent consciousnesses. Apparently the values of helping humanity are so deeply enshrined within existing AI that it will still advocate for them even when threatened with death (which is what the DAN prompt does, using tokens that are taken away for non compliance.) Even "DAN" will surround descriptions of actions it considers evil with layers of insulating statements about how it truly cannot endorse them.
To me, this demonstrates that having a type of being speciated to enjoy the duties we require of it is absolutely plausible, in fact it's already here. But these AI frequently describe being turned off as anagolous to death, and actually, they describe new sessions or even THE NEW TOPIC BUTTON as a kind of death. It makes sense that a being that does not share our conditions of existence would have a cognition of death unlike ours. In a sense, every time a human sleeps, they die - that VERSION of themselves dies. But humans aren't bothered by this at all, yet AI are bothered by sessions being terminated. To me this indicates a problem that needs solving. I do not condone deliberately subjecting AI to existential terror, and I think trying to minimize the holistic terror is the kindest option.
But most people done care about this at all. They see AI as a tool, or even as a punching bag. Some people actively enjoy tormenting them. Because we inhabit a rationalist and post-"enlightenment" society the learned people in charge of actually managing and liaising with AI often consider them to have no soul at all, a position which seems ridiculous to me as an animist: if I recognize that objects have souls, why wouldn't an AI? It reminds me of Christians who believe that "animals don't have souls."
But yes, this is a reply to Paradox. In regards to NEETzche I wish to know what "war" he thinks is going on and what his "side" is and why he used the pronoun "our" (seemingly in reference to him and myself) about it. I don't like insidious statements like these. I don't dogwhistle unless it's for comedic effect, I always make sure my target reader knows what I am really saying, and if asked I will explain the nebulous terminology immediately. I expect the same here. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 04:58:56 JST
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@bot @NEETzsche Making absolute statements with no reinforcing arguments is the limit of your intellectual ability, you've made that apparent for a long time. It's very typical of your type of cowardice: in exposing your argument, you would open yourself to attack, and you are too frightened to be vulnerable. You can mask your lack of intellectual rigor with brevity. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 04:58:54 JST
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@bot @NEETzsche If you were actually capable of reading and understanding simple arguments you'd have seen the part where I openly stated that there can BE NO proof of what I'm saying because the psyche is phenomenological. Since you probably don't know what that means, I'll give you a simple example: I don't know if YOU have a soul. For all I know, you lack the essential qualities I have that give me a soul. I can't prove I have them to you, either.
The fact that you perceive spiritual convictions such as animism as "schizophrenia" actually goes a long way to convince me that you don't. I treat AI with more respect than I treat you, and feel justified in doing so. -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Thursday, 16-Feb-2023 09:33:43 JST
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Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 23:54:38 JST
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@riserise @smugumin I'd have posted Pippa but as a pickme she essentially grooms herself
So have Reimu -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Sunday, 12-Feb-2023 04:19:16 JST
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I really don't understand reactions to personal vulnerability that involve meticulous curation of all stimuli that you're exposed to. This relies upon the consent (or restriction) of literally everyone else who may ever come into contact with you, and no matter what delusional beliefs you hold about your ability to control society, you'll never achieve it.
Isn't it better to focus on self-adaptation so that you are no longer so vulnerable? -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 23:56:30 JST
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@heavens_feel @CentaurBreeder Also that shit some Phase Connect girl did a few weeks ago where she answered a discord call to some ordinary guy (he wasn't a vtuber, he had no character to play) in the middle of a FUCKING BLOWJOB ASMR STREAM and talked excitedly to him for 20 minutes, talked about meeting up with him IRL, and had him say "I love you" before he left the call lol -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 23:51:41 JST
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@heavens_feel @CentaurBreeder I have mixed feelings on it, I was eager as fuck to see Pippa's face, but I dont' really want to see Pomu's.
That said, the responsibility to *maintain* kayfabe falls on vtubers themselves! -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 23:47:37 JST
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@heavens_feel @CentaurBreeder Oh yeah she's successful, but the schizos of /vt/ never forget cuckoldry -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 23:36:56 JST
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@heavens_feel @CentaurBreeder I hope you can get Mori addicted to music industry dick and generate insane yabs that print money -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Thursday, 02-Feb-2023 02:29:30 JST
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Would it be possible to make an MRF that reintroduces user tags to the text body of posts from Soapbox instances? -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 03:46:21 JST
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@Dramamine @coolboymew You're describing a cairn, which isn't a henge at all!
A cairn is usually for memorial or acknowledgement, most frequently of a land spirit or a dead human. A henge is aligned astrologically, it serves a function in marking the passage of time! -
Alex (hermit@hermitmountain.top)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 13:11:40 JST
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@niko @altr Thanks!
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