I will very briefly explain the abridged version of "Quantum Immortality" but you might want to read more about it. The short version of Quantum Immortality: "Imagine you are the cat in the Schrödinger experiment, if the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct (a big 'if'), you will...
When dreaming we sometimes simulate a very different person than our waking self, we can make decisions uncharacteristic of our own, we can experience a world very different then waking reality, and even sometime get implanted with memories we never experienced. And still, I think most people would consider that...
I will very briefly explain the abridged version of "Quantum Immortality" but you might want to read more about it.
"Imagine you are the cat in the Schrödinger experiment, if the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct (a big 'if'), you will only detect a world where you are alive. since you cant notice a world where you are dead, so from the point of view of you the cat, the probability of survival is always 100%"
This notion begs to be exploited, consider the case of wiring a random quantum experiment that would bet on a stock 50% of the times and against... (read 453 more words →)
agreed, but when preforming a singular task, they might have to simulate a single type of thought or personality
i don't try to claim LLMs dream like humans, I'm trying to say they might sometimes experience something similar to a human dream while preforming next word prediction
When dreaming we sometimes simulate a very different person than our waking self, we can make decisions uncharacteristic of our own, we can experience a world very different then waking reality, and even sometime get implanted with memories we never experienced.
And still, I think most people would consider that simulated 'dream person' a sentient being, we experience that person as ourselves, it is imbued with our consciousness for the duration of the dream, we experience a dream as a living person, as ourselves, but it is not always our waking selves.
Keeping this thought in mind, lets ask:
"What is happening inside an LLM when we ask it to continue a short story from... (read 201 more words →)
They do,
the concept of quantum immortality is very theoretical and there are many reasons to suspect is untrue, I don't try to preach for its correctness as I am very unsure of it myself, but I do aim to preform a thought experiment assuming it is correct