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    1 year ago

    What if something like ChatGPT is trained on a dataset of your life and uses that to make the same decisions as you? It doesn’t have a mind, memories, emotions, or even a phenomenal experience of the world. It’s just a large language data set based on your life with algorithms to sort out decisions, it’s not even a person.

    Is that you?

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        1 year ago

        I’m having a hard time imagining a decision that can’t be language based.

        You come to a fork in the road and choose to go right. Obviously there was no language involved in that decision, but the decision can certainly be expressed with language and so a large language model can make a decision.

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            1 year ago

            It doesn’t matter how it comes to make a decision as long as the outcome is the same.

            Sorry, this is beside the point. Forget ChatGPT.

            What I meant was a set of algorithms that produce the same outputs as your own choices, even though it doesn’t involve any thoughts or feelings or experiences. Not a true intelligence, just an NPC that acts exactly like you act. Imagine this thing exists. Are you saying that this is indistinguishable from you?