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   Astatide (astatide@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 03:47:33 JST Astatide

   Seriously, though, the claims of "emergent abilities", even ignoring that claims of intelligence are fundamentally rooted in racism (as has been noted) are deeply, deeply, deeply unscientific and should never have been published. I had nothing to do with any of this research and yet I am already tired of the fact that corporations get to make claims sans proof that *fundamentally* require proof and people paid *way less* have to waste time proving it's a big stack of lies.

   • esmevane, sorry repeated this.
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     Astatide (astatide@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 03:47:32 JST Astatide

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     "Our non-linear statistical model has intelligence." <-- this is the type of statement that requires proof. You could formulate it into a hypothesis:

     "we hypothesize that, as a non-linear statistical model grows, it gains intelligence/sentience."

     and you'd then be required to test it and prove it one way or another to publish a respectable paper. You'd need a metric and proper definitions.

     But instead, they just get to publish "whiffs of bullshit".

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     esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 03:47:56 JST esmevane, sorry

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     @astatide My goodness, yes. Thank you.