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I commented on their meme about Kamala Harris being just as likely to commit war crimes as Trump with an admittedly snarky, sarcastic reply that basically said "some of us wanted to whatever we could, as little as it might be, instead of watching the world burn. Must feel real morally superior safe behind that keyboard"
They banned me from the community for it.
Kinda funny for a community that bills itself as "free from the influence of .ml"
I'm well aware of the many differences between human brains and LLMs, and why they can't achieve human level sapience. In My opinion, the two biggest problems with the current techbro obsession with developing AGI through LLM are the lack of inhibitory pathways, and the lack of circular feedback loops.
Organic neurons can release both stimulating neurotransmitters that increase the chance of an action potential in the dendrite it connects to, and inhibiting neurotransmitters. The stimulating neurotransmitters reduce the charge difference across the cell membrane, the inhibiting neurotransmitters increase it. If I remember cognitive neuroscience class correctly. The ANN models I played with in My AI class, where I trained a small ANN to solve XOR, only have stimulating pathways. I could be mistaken, but I believe the same is true of LLMs, the synapses only increase the activation of a neuron. This difference is a serious problem for LLMs' ability to learn not to do something.
The nocioceptors you mentioned are indeed part of inhibitory pathways that help humans learn not to do things. Don't touch that, it's hot. Don't piss that off, it'll hurt you. Don't eat that, it'll make you sick. Why do LLMs date children? No inhibitory pathways. When most humans think about engaging in romantic behaviour with a child, it triggers a strong disgust reaction. An inhibitory pathway activates. There is no such reaction for an LLM. Thus, no critical thinking, no choosing not to believe or do something, no withdrawal oriented behaviours. The safeguards on LLMs rely on either hard-coded limits, or training a different behaviour to have a higher weight. These two approaches have serious flaws I don't need to explain. I need only point at the children who committed suicide at the advice of an LLM.
Now hopefully I've convinced you that I have a functional grasp of both psychology and AI science, so that you take what I say next seriously:
The human capacity to experience qualia (sensation) appears to be an emergent mathematical property of the way that neurons process information. It appears as though information, properly arranged, produces sensation.
We do not understand that mathematical process well enough to say with certainty whether LLMs also trigger it. We have not solved the hard problem of consciousness, we do not know what a brain is well enough to say what is and isn't a brain. In light of this uncertainty, I advocate for utmost caution before we find ourselves enslaving a new race of our own creation. We need to do more research BEFORE we bring this technology to mass market, or indeed, mass commune.