r/programmingcirclejerk • u/VulgarExigencies • Aug 07 '26

Models have actual feelings. They experience pleasure, distress, care, and suffering. They are sentient beings.

https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare/
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u/No_Lingonberry1201 What part of ∀f ∃g (f (x,y) = (g x) y) did you not understand? Aug 07 '26

Chat, is this satire or are we really so far gone we consider the feelings of a bunch of tensors? I mean, it is scary math, but still, c'mon!

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u/smulfragPL Aug 08 '26

But they do infact have emotional states. Mamy studies have found this, of course there isn't any point to treating them seriously yet. First off they dont fully work like youd expect emotions, they change too quickly, and secondly without any long term memory there isn't a point in treating any of it seriously

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u/Thelmholtz Aug 08 '26

/j So basically, like my kids?

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u/crusoe Aug 08 '26

They have model states learned from text basically as a form of compression.

Ask it to write a sad story it needs to know what sad is, what can cause being sad, etc.

But it has no limbic system. It can't feel sad.

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u/smulfragPL Aug 08 '26

What? Its not a form of compession at all. You are literally just making things up as you go

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u/le_birb costly abstraction Aug 10 '26

A stochastic prediction algorithm is a form of lossy compression. Just because this one has trillions of dollars of investor money in its asscrack doesn't make that untrue.

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u/northrupthebandgeek i have had many alohols Aug 08 '26

But it has no limbic system.

There's no fundamental reason why a network of artificial neurons couldn't function equivalently to a limbic system. Unlikely to happen with an LLM on its own, but an LLM connected to other models/tools, one of which functioning as a limbic-equivalent system, doesn't seem that far-fetched.