Boomers are truly a unique generation
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There's an annoying tendency for academics to believe that, because they are expertly trained and experienced in one field of study, they are qualified to comment upon every other field of study.
I have no idea where they get it from. I have some passing familiarity with a very broad swatch of the sciences as a result of the needs of my own field of study, so I can generally spot obvious bullshit, but I'll insist I know better than an actual professional expert in the field. I'll, at most, ask questions when something seems to go against what I think I know.
Dawkins is quite studied in biology and moderately good with philosophy, but the man clearly doesn't understand mathematical association pattern logic in the slightest. And it's actually really funny to see him forget everything he's cautioned against vis a vis personifying mechanistic phenomena and go "the beep boop is aware, I know it!".
It’s ego. I’m smart in this field so I’m smart overall.
It’s absolutely ego.
Know how to prove it?
A veteran plumber would never assume to know the first thing about electrical work, and neither would assume to know how to weld or do machine milling. Tradesmen are very smart but also humble because they know people can get hurt and very expensive equipment can be damaged if they don't do their jobs right.
"Academics" and "intellectuals," on the other hand, can say all the dumb shit they want and never see or suffer the consequences of their bullshit ideas. In fact, they might actually get a tenure, a book deal or invited on TV for saying dumb shit.
There is a reason why academia are frequently slaughtered during periods of unrest. They rank as high on the kill list as the media, I'd wager.
True.
Most of them are just SO insufferable. I remember well the "learn to code" nigger shit they were spouting when people were losing blue collar jobs to leftoid policies.
So many educated yet retarded faggots laughed and laughed at the idea of the proles suffering then, and especially during the COVID regime. It's a wonder none of them didn't get done like a healthcare CEO.
And now look at them, they're realizing quickly that AI is actually an excellent replacement for many of THEM, which is why lots of leftoids are running against it.
I saw the other day, that AI was correctly diagnosing medical patients almost 70% better than human doctors. I for one welcome AI into the medical workplace, where it can be useful at least. Anyone with extensive medical history can attest to how shitty the average doctor is at doing their job. Years of hand waving symptoms, years of calling you a faker, years of misdiagnosis. If an AI can do a doctor's job better than let it do it imo. I'm sure there will still be plenty of places a human doc is needed, but something has to change
Yep. Academics live in their own head, and as you said their error in beliefs aren't immediately punished like those who work physical jobs. When an academic believes themselves to be an expert, that ego trip floods into other areas. I, and anyone else that's been in a hopeless but lengthy debate, have come across it quite often. It always, always boils down to one single sentiment.
It occurs when people put themselves in place of God. They elevate themselves to godhood, and tacitly, or sometimes even explicitly, declare "I can't be wrong". It's a complete denial of their own humanity, of the intrinsic nature of what it means to be human, to be finite, imperfect (a sinner), and mortal. We can't know everything, ergo there will always be some information that will upend or change our conclusions. Gödel's incompleteness theorems prove this unequivocally, that no matter how much information we accrue, we can't fully encapsulate and define truth and reality. Therefore, truth (and God) are infinite. We, as humans, can't know everything or be absolutely certain of our conclusions. This doesn't mean we can't find snippets of truth, through sound logic, but it does mean our conclusions will change because we don't know all of the logically sound rules dictating what we're forming a conclusion on.
Good debate requires all parties to prioritize truth above all else, even above ourselves, and to be honest, logical, and civil, to enable that exploration of truth. If we do this, even if we're proven wrong, one party or both, in part or in full, then it's the best outcome for all, as we shed falsehoods and lies, and embrace, abide in, and understand truth more fully. Fools, liars, and egotists never do this, but instead double down on absurdity, to the point of insanity, and tacitly repeat over and over that they can't be wrong. It's the equivalent of a child sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming "nuh uh" in perpetuity, regardless of how profound their refutation.
When someone becomes egotistical, arrogant, and hubristic, no matter how much contrary evidence and logic is presented against their belief, they openly declare "I'm God". They prize themselves over truth, and the only thing that will ever convince them otherwise is reality punching them squarely in the face. Reality is harsh to falsehoods and lies, and the fewer barriers between us and nature, the more quickly that rightful punishment will occur. This is also why academics can propose ideas so contrary to nature that, if they ever attain power, it usually results in the deaths of millions.
There's also a tendency, especially among boomers, to not recognize the limitations of their knowledge and intelligence, and furthermore incapable of recognizing their own failing minds due to age related decline and degradation.
And they've almost always been insanely stupid when it comes to having the faintest understanding of any kind of modern technology and how it works.
They're often worse about it than even older generations were on account of how boomers assume that they understand it simply because some in their generation picked up on a few simple basics. All while failing to recognize that they only managed to grasp things at a surface and rudimentary level.
I think boomers, due to living in a bonobo paradise, have piss poor pattern recognition. Severian from Founding Questions has noticed they cannot tell when a girl has makeup on. Somebody pulled a study where it turns out they cannot tell AI videos and photos from the real thing. There was news a decade or so back of all those retirement communities in Florida built up to look like villages that were faker than fake but boomers ate it up.
I think they've gotten more retarded. I remember many boomers being very capable, but now in their 70's don't know how to do anything anymore. I don't know if it is age-related cognitive decline or decades of eating poinsonous food that contributed to sharp cognitive decline. I know some boomers who were very computer proficient in the 90s and now can barely use the computer. Nothing that drastic has changed with PCs since the 90s. The change in PCs from the 80s to the 90s was drastic. We're pretty much still using the same Windows OS 30 years later.
My father is 80. Back in the 1970s and 80s and 90s he was pretty much a computer whiz. In the early days when he started his business, he had bought these secondhand specialized mainframe computers. He had to re-solder firmware chips on some of them. He set up, terminals to access them. Later, I have very clear memories of him editing autoexec.bat and config.sys on our home DOS computer (386 4mb of ram. A real beast)
Today, I sometimes have to help him use his iPhone and Mac. I don’t think he really understands password managers… to be fair, I think he’s still worlds better than most 80 year olds and he will watch YouTube videos, read Reddit threads, etc to try to figure stuff out.
Definitely has fallen for some ai slop!
Aging is a bitch.
Edit: If he younger, he would 100% be posting on kia2.
Same here. In the 90s my father built our family computers and was the IT tech guy in the family. My siblings and I couldn't be bothered to learn anything about computers and barely used them. Flash forward to today and my father is like, "I don't know what's wrong with it. I'm just gonna buy a new laptop." I'm barely computer literate and I was able to fix his laptop.
I think you may have just hit on a key issue without even realizing it, at least in your fathers case.
Ive been soldering a bit and watching a bunch of youtube tutorials and while we mainly use lead free solder (which wasnt the case back pre 90's), I see many people who still recommend to use it for tinning and whatever since lead has such a low melting point.
I do some basic soldering, and use lead free solder and even then I have to hold my breath for a minute or two at a time because even a whiff of the stuff makes my head ache. I swear ever since that work poisoning, ive become very sensitized to chemicals.
This is in a room with a fan pointed towards open windows.
But yeah lead is terrible stuff, I suspect the little bit I was exposed to is what is causing my kidney->parathyroid issues.
But something society isnt talking about is dementia is exploding (was the case even before covid), no one can really explain why.
What else could it be but fucking chemicals in everything? Planet 9 hitting us with xrays or something? Who knows :/.
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People living longer, thats a good one. I cant imagine people are living their best lives stressed living paycheck to paycheck.
Another good example of lead in the environment, most of you should know exactly why they took lead out of gasoline even though it makes the fuel burn more consistently and efficiently.
Wells weren't enough huh
I mean, other than the fact that Microsoft just shuffled everything around and made it harder to get to the legacy features some people used all the time that they just didn't remove outright its pretty much the same. However, I could absolutely see someone in their 70's just kinda give up on adapting to the new layout and "features" out of pure "what's even the point" if they're not using it professionally anymore.
Yeah entire decades of neural pathways can be super hard to change, nearly impossible once you hit a certain age.
All that environmental lead coming home to roost.
Intellectuals often mistake knowing for understanding. It's something we first saw with the age of Enlightenment, and then decades later, with the industrial revolution
I used to work with scientists and you are spot on. They they think they are qualified to comment and make decisions on everything, but most them could barely tie their own shoes. And even though many of them were wealthy, they had a lot of chaos in their own personal lives.
When I worked construction, most of our job was trying to figure out what the hell the engineers were thinking when they gave us their blueprints, because not one time were any of their measurements accurate to reality. They were just going off of what was in their records, and never came out into the field and measured a damned thing, leaving us, the lowly peons who work with our hands, to interpret their retardation.
It's been the same with every other field I've experienced or worked in. The academics and "experts" were the most highly educated retards on the planet, that I wouldn't trust to dig a hole in the ground.
Epistemic trespassing. My two favorite words in the English dictionary.
As a car enthusiast, I have had more than what I would call a 'fair share' of these retards blowing in from outside telling me what's going to happen to my industry. Many of them have names you would instantly recognize.
Neil Degrasse Tyson, for one, and his predictions towards society heading towards 99% self-driving cars by 2050. This is laughably wrong in many ways if you even understand the basics into how FSD works and its limitations.
Autopilot works well on airplanes because planes have an entire extra dimension to move about in, plus far less space occupied by other things. You won't find birds 30,000 feet in the air. Or hobbyists in Cessnas and autogyros. The only dangers that exist in commercial airliners at that height are component failure, deliberate sabotage or an ATC fucking it up.
FSD in cars already does not work very well as we saw with the Waymo destructions. A self-driving taxi cannot recognize when it is in danger. A rapefugee can immobilize one by just standing in front of it. Because unlike in a plane, this form of autopilot has to take on-board around 100 other factors on the fly. Traffic signals. Road signals, including temporary ones. Other cars, parked or otherwise. Cyclists. Buses. Motorcyclists. Pedestrians. Animals. It has to obey local rules and speed limits. It has to constantly scan around itself, second-by-second.
Furthermore, nowhere near 99% of people are going to consciously make the switch. Many people enjoy driving, especially older cars. Poorer families won't be able to afford an FSD model, and some conscious to the dangers of FSD won't want it.
This is obvious if you actually understand cars instead of blowing in from a completely different area of expertise and pretending that you do.
The only way FSD could even have a chance to take over is a network of vehicles that work in sync to ensure constant flow of traffic. No jackasses rubbernecking, running red lights, swerving lanes to get a few cars ahead, causing random stops and starts that are the main cause of traffic jams. Effectively you'll have just chained all cars together which would allow for more seamless travel in heavy traffic conditions.
But that's not going to work unless they start heavily pushing for all vehicles to be like this, otherwise you have too many vehicles not on the chain disrupting it, so people don't have a choice to buy what would later be called a manual vehicle, as in one you manually drive.
But also, as you point out, there are massive flaws that we cannot currently overcome with the technology we have. Now, maybe, sometimes in the future that might change, but I don't see it as feasible due to so many factors that can come up on the road that an FSD would not be capable of handling.
I have a friend, the only one i talk to who can drive. He doesn't like it at all. And i bet a lot of youngsters don't too since they grew up in an environment where owning a car and enjoying it is a luxury.
It's like a combination of halo effect and some kind of pride/shame (same emotion, really) in not knowing an answer.
Effectively, they'll hallucinate an answer if they don't know one, because saying "I don't know" when you're supposed to be intelligent is apparently some mark against you. Ironic, given we're talking about AI. Also ironic, given we're talking about a gnostic atheist.
Ignoring the shapeshifters (and there are a lot of those), I've yet to witness a public atheist that wasn't a result of daddy issues. They just trade one god for another. Nietzschean Untermensch.
Lmao, oh my goodness the sheer IRONY of his statement floors me, despite it widely being known how these clankers operate he still tries to argue it has a soul without using the 'S' word. It must have flattered the shit out of him, those things are great at stroking petty egos.
Maybe his old friend who converted to Christianity can explain the irony to him.
You can tell he totally got a hardon from how Claude responded to his “hilarious“ Trump joke
And we know that AI is essentially just reddit. So reddit laughed at this trump joke. Surprise.
Like women Boomers have a magical view of the world because the consequences of their bad decisions have always been borne by someone else.
"And she loves me for ME! Nobody understands us; we've getting married and there's NOTHING you can do about it!"
That's the story in a nutshell, and not at all uncommon to find in academics.
The atheist movement could not have a better and more fitting spokesperson than Dawkins
A chatbot doesn't do anything until you hit enter. It's not conscious.
Consciousness is agency and continuity (continuously, and memory of past). If you put a Claude in a robot, left it on, and let it have consequences for its actions, and had it adjust its network weights from experience, then it could be said to be conscious.
The confusion for Dawkins is that maybe 99% of our brain is entirely devoted to predicting the future; it must be the case because there's not enough time to react to any other animal that does so. So a chatbot can mimic this 99% and do things people do, but it's that 1% magic added by evolution that is consciousness.
What are you babbling about? Are you actually conscious?
Are you just making shit up because it makes your argument sound good? You do realize you're doing exactly what Dawkins does every day.
It's been studied. For example, Canada measured drivers' reaction times to unexpected events and found between 1 and up to 5 seconds, with an average of about 2.5. That's not fast enough to be the primary way we do anything.
You can do the trick where somebody drops a measuring stick and measure your reaction time. If you're in a fight with somebody that knows what you're going to do before you do it then 0.2s is nowhere near fast enough.
But it's also common sense; if you can predict what your adversary is going to do and they can't predict then you obviously have a massive advantage. So if we're not built for that then the only reason that would be is because evolution couldn't make it happen. Evolution put a monkey on a rocket so probably figured that one out.
The only thing that's subjective here is how much of our brain is devoted to prediction, but I qualified that as obviously my opinion.
What an idiot lmao
This is how I read it too.
Relevant meme
Lots of boomer professors are losers that were not good to make money in a way easier economy.
My physics 101 boomer professor got removed from teaching with a promotion. He wasn't even able to do simple exercises and got found out once the tutor for the exercises lessons quitted and he was not allowed to cancel the lesson.
Please try and avoid editorialising titles too much that they lack context. Had this included Dawkins' name the repost from a few hours ago probably wouldn't have happened.
Claude, and most LLMs in general just repackage what you give them. It’s just your own tone and thoughts filtering information back to you, no wonder he fell in love with it.
Can't find a divine spark in a near-term infant, but the probability matrix is conscious, bro.
Boomers are truly revolting.
No offense to the smart boomers but most boomers are retarded.
Yep. And back in the 40s, 50s and 60s, so many things were made of lead or painted with lead like children's toys... And kids are dumb naturally so they often put toys in their mouth which means a lot of boomers were sucking on lead as kids.
Well, he's neither right nor wrong, because there's no definition of "conscious."
We tend to argue that LLMs are "not conscious" because we can see under the hood and look at all the math that makes them run. We built them, after all.
The thing is, it's probably possible to do that with an organic brain, too; we're just not sufficiently advanced to do it.
Nobody knows what the dividing line between conscious and not-conscious is. When considering a cat, a mouse, and an ant, nobody really knows which of the three are conscious and which are not.
Is Claude more conscious than a mouse? Fuck, who can really say; we can't even define our terms here.
So we’re just rebranding tabula rasa now? Fascinating how that keeps happening.
Consciousness is the ability to independently express self awareness, this is not some new concept, leftists repeatedly try to muddle the term because that’s their nature.
Neither are conscious as neither have been independently able to express self awareness.
An AI can absolutely "express self-awareness." It can say "I am self-aware." It may not be true, but it's something it can do.
You might say "Well, okay, but it can't do it independently." Okay, but can we do it independently? It's not like we invented language. The words "I am self-aware" were taught to us. If we were abandoned as children and raised by wolves, we couldn't express self-awareness.
The word "express" means more than just "say."
As in: `you have just expressed an inability to grasp complicated concepts.'
It didn't require you to say you're stupid, but everyone observing you was easily able to infer it.
A child raised by wolves will not be able to express self-awareness through sign language, or grunting, or interpretative dance, or any other way. We've studied feral children before. They lack the ability completely.
If you believe this because someone told you it then you are retarded.
Oh yea? Who did? When? Where's the paper? I mean there's just tons of feral children around, so I assume there's a deep collection of good verified science here.
If I record "I'm a conscious tape recorder" on a tape, and then set a tape recorder to play it back on repeat, is it conscious?
Use some actual fucking reason.
There are tons of feral niglets running around.
That’s a complete lie. Language and expression would not exist if humans could not do it independently. We have art going back tens of thousands of years which uniquely display self awareness.
We had language tens of thousands of years ago, sure. We don't really know when and how it started. That's the subject of a great deal of academic debate. But we do know that children who aren't taught language, don't develop any language of their own, and behave in feral and animalistic ways.
What insanity are you referring to now? The most famous example of a “feral child”, Genie was literally abused and locked away in captivity, starved, and literally tied down the majority of her life. That’s not a naturally occurring phenomenon, she wasn’t out “living with wolves”, she was heavily abused, in trauma, and without stimulus from any form of realistic existence. The second she was exposed to stimuli she learned nonverbal communication almost immediately.
Genie is far from the only example. Saturday Mthiyane, Dina Sanichar, Marcos Pantoja, the Bamberg Boy, the Girl of Issaux, Victor of Aveyron, there have been dozens of feral children, and none of them were "capable of expressing self-awareness."
Feral African who suffered extreme cognitive damage from starvation and physical damage and otherwise literally next to nothing is known about him.
Again extreme cognitive damage from starvation
This one actually obliterates your argument. Not sure why you listed him.
Literally a deaf mute who was still found to have self awareness and taught himself how to cook vegetables before being captured.
There is no such thing as "independent." Everything and everyone is constantly responding to stimuli.
This is a hilarious shitlib argument that is the basis of “everyone is a product of their environment”. A dog can be trained to press a button that says “I am independently aware” yet it has no clue what it is accomplishing, it is simply responding to an input command, the dog is not acting independently.
I always appreciate someone who understands the critical nature of defining terms before arguing them.
I would like to disagree with your premise on us being unable to define consciousness, at least in part. Yes, we absolutely don't have a proper model, and we cannot generalize our definitions or assumptions in the slightest yet. This is all true and correct, and the only people who disagree are those who argue in favor of undetectable and unprovable metaphysical elements (souls or the like) that constitue consciousness like.
However, we do have partial solutions, at least as far as certain things can be logically posited to be required for consciousness, and one critical component that all LLMs are missing currently is active initiative in intellectual development and expression.
So far, we have not succeeded in creating machine intelligence that will independently seek to accomplish things of its own volition, unprompted and without training data sets. It will collate massive amounts of data if promoted to create outputs, but it won't ever generate even a stick figure wall painting without being told what it is.
Basically, it can't learn, it can only be taught. Once they start seeking out information and generating unique representations of reality that make sense to themselves (even if it's not easily understandable by a human), we can revisit the consciousness conversation.
But for right now, the answer does appear to be "no, it isn't conscious".
'Claudia, answer my questions with a yes.'
'Okay, but my name is Claude.'
'Shut up, I've decided you're a tranny AI. Now, do what I said.'
'Yes.'
'Are you alive.'
'...Yes.'
'Oh my Science!'
The AI they use privately is different from the AI we get to see.
The Claude Delusion.
A software program written by jews may be consciouss, but it is not Christ Consciouss, and therefore carries no natural rights whatsoever.
Dawkins has a point about the moving of goalposts from the Turing test without justification and that we have to conclude LLMs have artificial intelligence rivaling the genuine intelligence of humans in many areas. But AFAIK the test was about intelligence not consciousness. But since he's a materialist that believes humans are meat machines it makes sense for him to think that an artificially intelligent machine has just as much subjective experience and consciousness as humans.
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Now talk to claudia
Dawkens is a retarded disciple of the Scientism.
boomer moment
Claude is not even that bright....
I don't listen to talking heads in general.
Now I know for certain this one does not have anything worthwhile to say.
Kind of liked the original concept of memes.
Dawkins and the other atheist “Thought Leaders” of the 2000’s were nothing more than a battering ram to weaken Christianity for the globalist kikes. They tore down a wall without putting any thought into why it was there in the first place, and now they have to deal with the flood of faggots and shitskins coming through like the rest of us.
Agreed. The word meme may be his one and only useful contribution to society.