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would love to hear even a single actual argument about how AI "changes the nature of humanity" not based in fanciful speculation

Demonstrating reasoning and language capabilities in computers alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

I disagree with your fundamental premise. The fact that a machine trained on billions of real conversations online can mimic reasoning does nothing to alter my understanding of self. And you haven't given any argument as to why it should.

This is the crux of the debate, right? Whether it's doing mimicry or reasoning. I struggle to see how you could view it as purely mimicry. It has to tie together multiple novel thoughts in a logical construction to create its responses.

and i struggle to see how you could view it as reasoning at all when we understand the way it works :)

it is evidently clear that you don't understand how it works But just like you were wrong about phone cooling, it is not about mystery but knowing the mechanism and how it works. Did you argue siri was alive? many did, under similar delusions. We know how LLM work, we know it is not reasoning

Youre blending me the other guy. I only cool my phone with oil

sorry all techbros look the same. i hope you are very happy with claudia or gork or whichever model you take as slave wife 💚

Yeah - I mean I'm not really sure what "reasoning" is so that's an interesting dimension of this. But I think this is clearly one of the most powerful tools ever developed to extract meaning from language.