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Adrian

@lead-castle.bsky.social

Red glow from a dying sun | Comic artist and writer | he/him ⚧️ 🔞 📡 WYVERN, a furry/mecha graphic novel www.wyverncomic.com Read ahead at www.patreon.com/Lead__castle https://aschweinsberg.art/

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Rien Gray@riengray.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've been obsessed with this art that Oscar Chichoni did for the 20 year special of Heavy Metal since I was a teenager - every time I see it, the door to my id opens:

Robert Yang@radiatoryang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

cool paper arguing LLMs can be implemented as a shitload of goats in Age of Empires II... thus it'd be silly to assume / project human-like consciousness onto it

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Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 2mo ago

This paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures. It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514

Much research has been carried out on large language models (LLMs) and LLMpowered agentic workflows. However, many works within the field state emergence of, ascribe to, or assume, generalised anthropomorphic attributes to them (e.g., morality or understanding of natural language). Our goal is not to argue in favour or against the existence of these attributes, but to point out that these conclusions could be incorrect. For this we build and train a simple neural network on the videogame Age of Empires II, and note that any entity in a sufficiently-powerful substrate, such as LEGO or the Greater Boston Area, could also present such attributes. Hence, the purported anthropomorphic attributes of LLMs are empirically non-unique: although some properties (e.g., responses to prompts) could remain constant, others, such as the interpretation of their perceived behaviour, might change with the substrate. Thus, any empirically-grounded discussion requires explicit measurement criteria; otherwise the interpretation is left to the representation. We then show that assuming that these attributes exist or not in a system, independent of the substrate and in a generalised way, leads to either circular or uninformative conclusions, regardless of the experimenter’s viewpoint on the subject. Finally we propose a ‘null’ assumption, where one assumes LLM non-uniqueness instead of assuming anthropomorphic attributes to set up an experiment, along with examples of it. We also discuss potential objections to our work, briefly survey the field, and prove that Age of Empires II is functionally- and Turing-complete.
Adrian@lead-castle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Inferno! Defied my expectations! It’s nice to be proven wrong and listen to something much more optimistic than i was prepared for. Shockingly sounds a lot better on headphones than from the ceiling speaker of a humid record store lol but the poster is so sick

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