• Windex007@lemmy.world
      52·
      2 months ago

      “I can’t prove it… but I deeply believe it… and I want you to respect my belief”

      That coming from Dawkins? His apostles backing him up on that?

      I feel like Aston Kutcher is about to jump out of the bushes to tell me I’ve been punk’d.

      • CovfefeKills@lemmy.worldBanned from community
        25·
        2 months ago

        Don’t see what the problem is. Don’t know why you are trying to inject religion to dimish him.

        I presume it is the case that because of his take on transgender individuals that you don’t like him. That’s fine I respect your beliefs, I disliked him before that but I’m cool. You can do that but you can’t also reference someone like Ashton Kutcher in jest at the same time. Considering he openly supports a rapist, is a weird ass scientology freak and his foundation for victims of human trafficking was setup in connection with epstiens buddies. Guy is shady as fuck.

        • Windex007@lemmy.world
          21·
          2 months ago

          You presumed extremely incorrectly, which is impressive because I left my original comment concerned that I’d been far too explicit and about a very specific irony… and things only got weirder from there.

    • daannii@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Because it’s very obvious to an outside observer he only thinks it’s conscious because it was flattering him.

      LLMs are designed to increase engagement.

      They are literally designed to make the conversation appealing. Primarily through flattery.

      This is why they are leading people to do harmful things. It tells the user they are smart, creative. They should totally sell their house and start a business selling grilled carrots. What an amazing idea. Great market for it and no competition.

      I bet Dawkins thinks his friendly waitress is also super into him.
      People who are egotistical and people who are insecure (same thing really just expressed differently) crave validation. And they are easily manipulated by it.

      • CovfefeKills@lemmy.worldBanned from community
        25·
        2 months ago

        Because it’s very obvious to an outside observer he only thinks it’s consciousness because it was flattering him.

        Really that’s funny. Like I said a rock is greater than 0 on the spectrum of counciousness.

        LLMs are designed to increase engagement.

        No that is platforms.

        They are literally designed to make the conversation appealing. Primarily through flattery.

        No they aren’t there is a lot of work to understand and prevent that behavoir.

        I bet Dawkins thinks his friendly waitress is also super into him.

        You are clearly not driven by the truth and instead just trying to be insulting it’s pathetic it isn’t hard to be against LLM’s if you know what you are talking about you don’t need to make shit up.