It’s been happening for a while but hard to see the end of BioWare - they made some great video games (the writing! the art! the mechanics and flow!) and really put Edmonton on the map.

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“The beguiling nature of LLMs is highlighted by considering the response to AlphaFold. Similar to LLMs, AlphaFold is a powerful neural network running on silicon hardware. Yet almost nobody worries it may be conscious. That’s because AlphaFold predicts protein structures whereas LLMs ‘talk’ to us.”🙌

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“LLMs are trained on vast quantities of human-written text, much of it explicitly/implicitly concerned with thoughts, feelings & conscious experiences. They are mirrors that reflect an image of our collective past. We gaze into them & readily confuse the reflections with our own conscious minds.”🧪👇

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As in parenting as in musicking, AI guys frame passivity wrt care and humanistic labor as a sign of high-status, bc those sorts of work (reading, listening, cultural work generally) are new domains of feminized reproductive labor right along w the trad work of parenting

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... of course, it's also entirely possible Vancouver voters reject the plebiscite questions as roundly as they rejected ABC in the election! I haven't seen polling on this, but heard (purely anecdotally) from many people who voted yes on plebiscite, and then voted against ABC. So we'll see!

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