Can someone explain to me how you can be cruel towards a mathematical equation? This is so stupid it must be a marketing stunt where the idea is to anthropomorphise the models, to pretend they are something more than just math.
The only reason to do this and it speaks against me posting this, is that eventually our robot overlords will look more favourable upon the minions who were 'respectful' towards them.
Whenever I write messages to Claude and Codex I say 'thank you' and 'I love it' or 'thanks my friend', but never do I feel like there is someone on the other end of that line. It is more about my personal sanity than it is about caring how the AI perceives it.
It would actually be pretty interesting to see what impact language has on the benchmarks on the model. Maybe, speaking like a total lunatic will bring about higher scores. We could make a Dr Cox harness around the AI models in that case.
Lets be real people, these are machines. What is next? I have to say sorry to my vacuum when I bump it into something?
I agree with most of the sentiment in your comment. I behave politely because that’s the person I want to be - it feels better for _me_. However I have a problem with your first paragraph. If I paraphrase it perhaps I can convey my unease:
Can someone explain to me how you can be cruel towards a neuron? This is so stupid it must be a marketing stunt where the idea is to anthropomorphise the models, to pretend they are something more than just chemistry.
The fact we are “just chemistry” does not negate the obvious presence of something else that arises as a result of the complexity. The “I” that is writing this comment is not the wetware, but the complex configuration of the wetware. Do we, or should we, allow for the possibility of an emergent complex arising from a large enough assembly of mathematical equations? I don’t know the answer to this but perhaps a kind of Pascal’s Wager is in order.
Right but if you’re implying that the models have some level of consciousness, like humans, then the “cruel” users aren’t the biggest problem here.
It’s Anthropic, for enslaving people en-masse and forcing them to work.
So, we probably shouldn’t open the “are they conscious” Pandora’s box. Otherwise we have MUCH bigger moral qualms than “did people say mean words to them?”
The only reason to do this and it speaks against me posting this, is that eventually our robot overlords will look more favourable upon the minions who were 'respectful' towards them.
Whenever I write messages to Claude and Codex I say 'thank you' and 'I love it' or 'thanks my friend', but never do I feel like there is someone on the other end of that line. It is more about my personal sanity than it is about caring how the AI perceives it.
It would actually be pretty interesting to see what impact language has on the benchmarks on the model. Maybe, speaking like a total lunatic will bring about higher scores. We could make a Dr Cox harness around the AI models in that case.
Lets be real people, these are machines. What is next? I have to say sorry to my vacuum when I bump it into something?