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0 pointsTeMPOraL3y ago0 comments

Makes me think of the first longer session I had with GPT3 (via AI Dungeon): I prompted it with a scenario about a holodeck technician, and, over the course of two hours, I've used it to create a story that could easily be turned into scripts for 3-5 separate Star Trek episodes - and that was with almost no backtracks.

Once the story finished (the AI got the character shot dead in a firefight)... I suddenly felt like I woke up from a really intense and very trippy dream. That strong feeling of unease stayed with me for the rest of the day, and only subsided once I slept it off. I later mentioned it on social media, and some responders mentioned that they too got this eerie, trance-like experience with it.

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mjburgess3y ago

I've come to realise that schizophrenia and autism are just slightly more extreme modes of two aspects of animal consciousness.

In the first, your prior expectations about meaningfulness are dialled up; in the latter, they're dialled down.

In that it seems autism is a kind of "literalism of the data" and schizophrenia a kind of "literalism of the interpretation".

Being somewhat autistic myself, I have always had a very negative reaction to "idea literalists" (religious, superstitious, transhumansist, crypto-blahblah... and AI-hype).

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