Elan Barenholtz
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2,007 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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You could take a picture and feed it to the large language model.
What's happening is much closer to uh generating a prompt, basically saying, here's what's in the room.
Uh and now, based on these features, these descriptions, now run this same exact language exclusive model.
And so language takes care of itself.
It doesn't need grounding in order to be able to do everything it does.
It doesn't have to have concepts outside of itself.
I think that's basically been proven by these text-only large language models.
So that was the big epiphany.
The big epiphany was that oh if langu language
can run language uh is autonomous, language is self-generating, that means it's a it's a dichotomous computational system.
It's independent uh of the rest.
Um and what this what's this leads me to believe is okay well if it can live in silicon in this way, then perhaps and and now I've come to believe very strongly that it likely runs in the same way uh in carbon, in biology, in uh in in our brain.
Greens.
Okay, so you're not denying consciousness and you're not denying qualia.
No.
And and I I think I I want to make this very clear that uh you know my and m my personal opinion on this is, you know, i is is besides the point.
To some extent, you know, you can be a uh an eliminativist if you want.
Uh I i although I think this all everything I'm saying has a lot to s to a lot of bearing on this.
Uh but my the I uh my I believe my account is strictly an account of language.
Um I think that uh
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