Have you been reading something on a page and not moved your mouse for 5 seconds?

You’re away from the keyboard drinking cocktails at the beach alert.

Liberalism.

Liberals are welcome here!

Unironically, Hexbear.

Then: Don’t download applications and run executables you don’t fully trust.

Now: Download everyone’s new snazzy app just because and scan everything with your phone that contains all your most private information so you can unlock a surprise!

Oh, that would be a good rewatch.

I rewatched Reservoir Dogs last year or so for the first time in like 15 years and it was amazing.

In the US, especially in the 90’s, there were a lot promotional mailers, TV ads, and so on to prey on people’s desperation and ignorance that were sent out that would say that the person has “a chance to win $1M!” or “may have already won!”

Of course, I’ve never heard of anyone who actually won anything from them. It was probably just a data collection thing or asking people to send $20 to enter the fake lottery, I’m not sure. But, I have to admit, I did join a lot of those because I was a kid and I thought it’d be fun or easy and my dad would humor me by going through the process—or, at least, pretend that he did. We never won anything though.

I’m a bit sick so I comfort watched Rush Hour 1 and 2 last night.

Some aspects didn’t age great, but they’re still really fun movies for 90’s sensibilities.

I do wish Pop!_OS had a better hibernate/sleep mode.

My computer just stays on until I turn it off or the battery dies.

Your crush leaving you for someone else.

Ikiru. Harakiri. The Human Condition. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.

Kumite!

Loved his movies as a kid. Glad to hear he cleaned up.

God is great!

Please keep being great.

I was also thinking I’d love to hear some adagios being sung.

Parking enforcement?

Millennial/Gen Z doom spending?

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I know! I know!

Pick me!

But, ironically, the Chinese Room Argument you’re bringing up supports what others are saying that LLMs do not ‘understand’ anything.

It seems to me like you are establishing ‘understanding’ with a functionalist meaning to be able to say that input/output is equivalent to understanding in order to say the measurable process in itself shows ‘understanding’. But that’s not what Searle, and seemingly the others here, seem to mean by ‘understanding’. As Searle argues, it is not purely the syntactic manipulation in question but the semantic. In other words, these LLMs do not “know” the information they provide, they are just repeating based off the input/output process with which they were programmed. LLMs do not project or internalize any meaning to the input/output process. If they had some reflexive consciousness and any ‘understanding’, then they could have critically approach the meaning of the information in order to assess its validity against facts rather than just naïvely proclaiming that cockroaches got their name because they like to crawl into penises at night. Do you believe LLMs are conscious?

I was about to ask the same.

It’s startling and confusing at times, honestly.

I feel like I must be misreading or having a stroke until I figure it out.

Maybe. The US would have to first begin to feel actual shame about colonization and slavery though, which hasn’t really begun in earnest.

I don’t know if the US has the capacity for feeling the weight of its true guilt.