Notices by crabctrl (katp32@mastodon.social)

@thomasfuchs and no, you cannot handwave away physics with "<something something quantum physics>". quantum physics is *physics*, not magic. even if human brains do work using "quantum physics", that doesn't mean it can't be simulated by a Turing-complete system because, again, it's *physics*, not magic.

quantum computers, too, can be emulated with classical computing. actual quantum computers are just faster, they aren't magic, they aren't more powerful.

https://xkcd.com/1240/

@thomasfuchs come on. you know that's not how this works. "quantum effects" is handwavy pseudoscience but also irrelevant as proved by my dear friend Alan Turing.

is an LLM capable of human intelligence? no. are humans intrinsically special and impossible to simulate without handwavy unscientific bullshit like "souls"? no. that's absurd.

a sufficiently large computer can simulate *any* physical process. humans are, in fact, based in physics, not magic.

@thomasfuchs and yes, we don't fully understand the human brain, but that doesn't mean physics doesn't apply. that's the same logic people use wrt perpetual motion machines and such nonsense; "oh, we don't fully understand it, that means anything's possible".

no. it does not mean anything is possible. nor is there any reason whatsoever to believe human brains are in any way special. they're bags of chemicals. really complex bags of chemicals, but still bags of chemicals, not magic.

@ryanhoulihan I support creative workers so I hire a graphic designer to make my b adly kermed ads.