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Re:The Thoughts the Civilized Keep by lolwut987 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @05:52PM (#28385966)
It’s wrong to say it doesn’t want anything, it’s solely motivated to minimize training error.

If you align what minimizing train error means with a larger purpose, it will seemingly make magic happen.

Just like you, online, trying to figure out how to turn this into copulatory success. It doesn’t matter if you succeed but don’t understand why, only that you succeed.

Re:The Thoughts the Civilized Keep by Jtsummers on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @06:14PM (#28386188)
Is it motivated or is it just what it does? Is your thermostat motivated to minimize the temperature difference in a particular direction as well or is it just a machine that does that? Is your bicycle motivated to stay upright when you ride it or is just a consequence of physics (and halfway decent balance)?
Re:The Thoughts the Civilized Keep by jacobr1 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:13PM (#28386715)
Are you motivated to "find love?" Or just mechanistically following your genetic drive for reproduction?