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often_says_nice OP t1_jdrb0m4 wrote

Reply to comment by RadioFreeAmerika in Are We Really This Lucky? The Improbability of Experiencing the Singularity by often_says_nice

What if the simulation is the response of a massively complex LLM. Who is the prompter in this case? Would he be what people refer to as God?

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Wasted-Entity t1_jdrzs0m wrote

Prompt:

Create an entire universe based on 4 fundamental laws of physics, make it so eventually life evolves that questions whether they’re just a prompt in an AI software.

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RadioFreeAmerika t1_jdrezc7 wrote

Could be. I asked in another post about LLMs and maths capabilities, and it seems that LMMs would profit greatly from the capability to do internal simulations. LLMs can't do this currently, and people commented that in the Microsoft paper, they state that (current?) LLMs models are conceptually unable to do more than linear sequence processing of one sequence. Possible workarounds are plug-ins or neuro-symbolic AI models.

Nevertheless, maybe our reality is just the internal simulation of an ASIs prompt response. Who knows, would that be ironic?

Your second question is an eons-long discussion and greatly depends on how you define god.

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Dolnen t1_jdrmt8y wrote

I think this line of reasoning is pointless, or at least it has unnecessary steps. What is the nature of the reality of that prompter? Is his the ultimate reality? How did that reality come about? The same questions we ask about our reality would still persist. It's an endless, paradoxical loop

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