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Helen Keller is an existence proof that text-only language models can scale to AGI. (https://twitter.com/norabelrose/status/1556368034104651777)
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199 likes at the moment. I don’t know about the basilisk but humanity is definitely doomed

Helen Keller also had her sense of touch and smell.

Also had the vast range of human emotions (sad, angry, happy, surprised, afraid, curious, etc.) and environmental experiences (eating, shitting, feeling pain, growing up, getting older, remembering the past, imagining the future) that are not reducible to the presence or absence of various gross sense-inputs.
Ah, but have you considered that language models have access to *the Internet*? And surely there's no part of the human experience that hasn't been successfully and completely documented on the Internet, right?
\>tfw the human experience is 99% porn and online shopping

Took me a while to understand what they meant. And then I got what the ‘jesus christ don’t compare disabled people with computer programs you absolute twats’ tweets were referring.

E: for people who want to read more on why this is bad (via the thread, but tweets are weird and impermanent)

I don't love the "touch grass" meme (mostly because I'm allergic to most grasses and the thought makes me tense up) but like... have the people taking this thought seriously ever spent a single second of their lives not looking at a computer screen?

This is a not even wrong moment.

Shockingly offensive shit. Or just a worldview informed by staring at a computer all day.

Why not both? :)

O R they?