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Re:After the AI boom: what might we be left with? by forgotusername6 on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:12PM (#45561460)
What makes you so sure that you aren't just fancy autocomplete?
Re:After the AI boom: what might we be left with? by alganet on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:27PM (#45561601)
I am sure that if I am a fancy auto-complete, I'm way fancier than LLMs. A whole different category of fancy way above their league. Not just me, but any living human is.
Re:After the AI boom: what might we be left with? by abathologist on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:36PM (#45561667)
I am so sure because of the self-evidence of my experience, the results of 2 millennia of analysis into the nature of cognition and experience, and consideration of the material composition of our organism (we obviously have lots of critical analog components, which are not selecting tokens, but instead connecting with flows from other continua).

Prediction is obviously involved in certain forms of cognition, but it obviously isn't all there is to the kinds of beings we are.