Post by sheepy on Sept 2, 2023 10:35:11 GMT
The AI receives no instruction, but it doesn't need to if it can predict (through sampling) what the instruction would likely be. This is a hard concept to get your head around but i feel it is important - if there is no aspect of the human that can't be 'adequately simulated' through sampling, then human instruction to the AI can also be simulated. I know this sounds like a cheat (and it is) but the whole thing is a cheat and this is the power of cheating. Imagine a world in which everything, no matter how complicated and badly understood, can be duplicated and re positioned into another context effortlessly. Reality as we know it no longer exists.
In another forum someone posted a nightmare they had, and it struck me as likely the most disturbing nightmare i have ever heard described.
In the dream, they were led (by someone) from their house to the garden. At the foot of their garden, there were a ring / crowd of people.
As the dreamer got closer she could see there were everyday human scenes being played out in the crowd -
A mother with her baby
A marriage - the groom kisses the bride
A family meal
Children circling each other, sword fighting with sticks
Two men arguing
people waiting for a bus
That sort of thing.
The 'guide' turned to the dreamer with a malicious smile and asked - "can you tell which is real? I bet you can't"
