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0 pointsmikepurvis4mo ago0 comments

Dogs too; dogs will happily pretend they haven't been fed/walked yet to try to get a double dip.

Whether or not LLMs are just "pattern matching" under the hood they're perfectly capable of role play, and sufficient empathy to imagine what their conversation partner is thinking and thus what needs to be said to stimulate a particular course of action.

Maybe human brains are just pattern matching too.

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iamacyborg4mo ago· 1 in thread

> Maybe human brains are just pattern matching too.

I don't think there's much of a maybe to that point given where some neuroscience research seems to be going (or at least the parts I like reading as relating to free will being illusory).

mikepurvisOP4mo ago

My sense is that for some time, mainstream secular philosophy has been converging on a hard determinism viewpoint, though I see the wikipedia article doesn't really take stance on its popularity, only really laying out the arguments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will#Hard_determinism

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