<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 1:50 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>I keep showing this image, attempting to communicate something:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=6932dd3163&attid=0.1&th=18762390edfde697&view=fimg&fur=ip&rm=18762390edfde697&sz=w1600-h1000&attbid=ANGjdJ_UPGV0kPVPDo-HJP7gc-PRiTb7IMfNP1IgWrY7XWXLoQAmNzvPUB-XyNLntrtKeRdqy2oZdkW8wfb47hlwUqYLFiVg_dPrlXE4H-g4TIERJnYGAxue0_38KtE&disp=emb&realattid=ii_lg89ae9w0&zw" alt="3_functionally_equal_machines_tiny.png" width="320" height="118"></div><div>Sure, our elementary school teacher told us the one on the left is red, the one in the middle is green, and the one on the right is just the word 'Red'.</div><div><br></div><div>But it is evident from all these conversations, that nobody here understands the deeper meaning I'm attempting to communicate.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I will be the first to admit that try as I have I understand neither the diagram nor your explanations that have accompanied it. I also feel in our exchanges that you may have failed to understand my poins. We have had a general failure of communication.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My questions related to the diagram:</div><div dir="auto">1. Why is the strawberry gray, is it supposed to be gray to signal that photons are colorless? Are all three seeing the same strawberry?</div><div dir="auto">2. The image file is called "functionally equal machines", but how are they functionally equal when they each have a different mental state from the same stimulus?</div><div dir="auto">3. Why is the same person seeing a green strawberry? Is it meant be the same person or a different person with inverted qualia?</div><div dir="auto">4. What do you mean by a dictionary conveying the meaning of red? Dictionaries say nothing of the quale of red. They can only refer to things that look red, but we have no proof people even see colors the same as each other.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My only take away from this image is that different beings can have different experiences from the same physical stimulus, but I don't think that's controversial, or significant so you must be trying to say something else. But what that is, I don't know.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Some people seem to be getting close, which is nice, but they may not yet be fully there.</div><div>If everyone fully understood this, all these conversations would be radically different.</div><div>Even if you disagree with me, can anyone describe the deeper meaning I'm attempting to communicate with this image?</div><div>What does this image say about qualities, different ways of representing information, and different ways of doing computation?</div><div><br></div><div>How about this, I'll give $100 worth of Ether, or just USD, to anyone who can fully describe the meaning attempting to be portrayed with this image.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 10:27 AM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 9:31 AM Jason Resch <</span><a href="mailto:jasonresch@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">jasonresch@gmail.com</a><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 10:45 AM Gordon Swobe <<a href="mailto:gordon.swobe@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">gordon.swobe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 3:43 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br>There is phenomenal consciousness. That I would call awareness of first person non-sharable information concerning one's internal states of mind.</div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div></span><div dir="auto">It is this phenomenal consciousness to which I refer. If you do not think there something it is like to be a large language model then we have no disagreement.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I believe there is something it is like to be for either the LLM, or something inside it.</div></span></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not sure what you mean by something inside it. A philosopher named Thomas Nagel wrote a famous paper titled something like “What is it like to be a bat?” That is the sense that I mean here. Do you think there something it is like to be GPT-4? When you ask it a question and it replies, is it aware of its own private first person experience in the sense that we are aware of our private experience? Or does it have no awareness of any supposed experience?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-gts</div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div></div>
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