An AI agent making a frontend for a bot stopping tool in order to appease corporate drones.

It’s robots all the way down!

They might as well just die, after all god-grok will resurrect them right?

Turns out putting sawdust into our rice krispies made people stop buying our product.

Apparently they want the “rice premium”.

I wonder if a parrot can be trained to do a podcast, a significant amount of them are just parroting each other anyways.

It would be cool if it was like that.

But I think the reason was more or less if you didn’t have help from the force you’d end up cutting yourself trying to do acrobatics, which is a much funnier explanation.

From what I understand, pain is generally defined as our neurons wasting energy.

If we assume the Free Energy Principle is fundamental, then updating information produces free energy, which is more intuitive to think of as wasted energy. Overfitted/overcomplicated beliefs take more energy more often to fix to be more accurate. So free energy is defined at complexity of belief minus accuracy of belief.

The brain over evolution has defined a very ingrained belief that “my pain sensors shouldn’t activate” so when your pain sensors activate it violates this belief.

Emotions are actually condensed representations of your bodily state and some of your mental state, and whether they are good or bad depends on if you can predict your emotions. For instance you feel fear because you are trying to predict your pain sensors will go off to reduce its pain, but you keep predicting it’ll happen when it hasn’t yet. It’s also why anger during a boxing fight could feel good and anger when you stub your toe does not, one was predictable the other a surprise.

Assuming all the links in the chain of theories are true, then current LLMs cannot feel pain or emotion. They care about prediction error and sometimes complexity during training, but during inference it doesn’t get any signal or consequence for delivering the wrong token. It has no internal state except for the context window, which is never surprising for the LLM. The attention layers literally guides the model for what is most expected from the text it’s handed.

Even if the LLM received a negative training signal during inference, acting wounded after pain is the expected response. A random sequence of gibberish would be more “painful” than any torture fantasy.

On top of all this, the Free Energy Principle works because on a cellular neuron level we are built to reduce wasted energy, free energy being one source of wasted energy. LLMs are built on matrix multiplication running through GPUs and neither are even aware of the energy wasted, nor the free energy produced from changing values.

I think a feeling machine is possible, but the foundation of neural networks right now don’t have the necessary components to drive any subjective sensation or emotion.

Looks like a Renaissance painting.

“Do politics” in this case refers to talking about anything that can be perceived as political.

Obviously people need to be willing to talk about issues before we can fix them, instead of everyone with privilege choosing to ignore it until they personally are affected.

Oh god, I think I’m in love:

This pedantic argument annoys me so much. We’ve called basic ass decision trees for NPCs in games AI for a while now, any program that can make a decision based on data is an AI.

If you don’t like it, you’re more than free to provide the world with a true all-encompassing definition of intelligence that everyone can agree on, you’ll join all the others that tried.

What is shown is just an online tool for showing true continent size. This is the equal earth projection, and you’ve probably already seen it in schools:

I genuinely think Disney licensed to Sora because they saw how unprofitable it was and knew it would go under anyways.

Because Disney got OpenAI to pay for a license they now have no use for.

The “secret” is people want and will actively seek out passions, and having a job that you’re passionate about is a night and day difference.

All you need to get people passionate is provide livable wage, have a supportive work culture, and give them a sense of purpose for their work.

Instead we’ve got shit pay, managers that will abuse your trust to get free work then dump you on a bad quarter, and all sense of choice and responsibility stripped in favor of getting you to follow a corporate script and be a good little corporate automaton that absorbs the customer’s complaints while being powerless to fix their issue.

I’d argue the Monkey’s Paw is a bad example because I don’t think the Monkey’s Paw is actively malicious like a djinn.

I think Monkey’s Paw just works off of path of least resistance. What’s the fastest way to randomly get rich? Workplace accident causing life insurance payout. What’s the least effort way to revive the dead? Just make the corpse start moving again. What’s the easiest way to give a shambling corpse peace? Undo the last wish.

I feel like a Djinn wouldn’t let you undo the reviving wish. They’d probably just put them in a coma so your son is now in a half dead comatose state forever.

Y’see the 3 sided zipper can only exist in cosmic levels of pressure and heat, being constrained by advanced AI controlled magnets to prevent the zipper from getting caught on something.

Actually Deepseek’s having a resurgence because of their Engram module which is truly novel.

It’s not so much that Deepseek is a flash in the pan but more like they do some cool new thing and everyone copies their work while they recede back into their research.

Some time ago: “I just hope the most evil people are so dumb that they get found out”

monkey’s paw curls a finger

Don’t misrepresent the situation, Elmo is a muppet not a puppet!

Then I’d have to also tell you to never play a game or buy a product ending in 99 cents. Getting into the mind of the consumer is business 101 and is literally the difference between a game/product having any success or not.

And this has been proven, JCPenney tried to get rid of 99 cent pricing and led to losing 30% profits and bankruptcy. The people who want fair and square pricing won’t be there to actually buy it.