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Religious scholars met with Anthropic

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Noaidi · 1791085293 · focus · HN ↗
Only humans can have morality. If you do not feel pain, you cannot empathize with pain if you cannot die, you cannot emphasize with the loss of life.
Just stop this already.
You’re all imagining that Spock was the main character of Star Trek, but it was in fact, the emotional living Captain Kirk, who was the main star.
1. kelseyfrog · 1791085445 · focus · HN ↗
  LLMs can feel pain. It is obvious. Like, not even a question.
  1. combobyte · 1791086246 · focus · HN ↗
    I question it, and I think any reasonable person should question it as well. There's no evidence whatsoever that LLMs have ANY sensory experience, pain or otherwise.
    rhplus · 1791086620 · focus · HN ↗
    Why are we even questioning this? They’re bytes loaded into GPU memory. Reboot the cluster and they’re back to their initial state.
    bigstrat2003 · 1791095739 · focus · HN ↗
    Because some people are completely cooked by the ability of an LLM to mimic a person. Their pattern matching centers in their brains fire so strongly saying "this thing acts just like a real conscious being" that it overrides their ability to remember that this thing is just a statistical model, not a living creature which can think and have experiences.

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