Nathan Perry

Mostly #TheOrville. Professional musician @Local_802_AFM.

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow And even those 0s and 1s are really just another abstraction for the presence or absence of electrical current.
Stimulus->response
No stimulus->inert

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow I have a feeling you're right. And I guess that—apropos of your original post—is what we're afraid of.
("He has too much of his father in him.")
—using em-dashes since before they were cool!

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow For that matter, is biological sentience any more "true"? Doesn't it derive just as much from its underlying electro-chemical infrastructure, however incomplete our knowledge of same? Or is there some extra "spark" that robots can never have?
(And how would we know, if so?)

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow I'm even less an expert—I have about a late-90s grasp of computer science. But AI/LLM technology—albeit massively abstracted and miniaturized—still all boils down to basic binary digits, right?

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow And as follow-up, is there a difference? Is sentience distinguishable from a perfect facsimile of sentience? Or are they as much the same thang as 0.999… is the same thing as 1?

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow I guess I mean, is the asking itself—not merely the content of the questions—somehow more spontaneous? LLMs are designed to converse, but can computers become inquisitive other than as the (intended) result of their programming?
Does that, like the Kaylon, approach sentience?

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@BlackSheepJess @xeow Mine too. That owl is such a dramaturd.

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow Are the questions asked by LLMs somehow more…organic…than those asked by basic computer programs according to their instructions?
Are these the computer's "own" questions, as opposed to those asked as agent of its programmers?

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow @ElihuWho The Peacock hasn’t driven it fully from him.

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@BlackSheepJess Okay, as a major Seth fan, this is going to be tough for me to admit, but…
I never realized one of his many signatures was deadpan.

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@Doctor_Omega @BlackSheepJess @xeow Thanks for keeping us optimistic, yet honest. And as we all know, Goonies never say "die".

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@BlackSheepJess She’s bear-curious.

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow @BlackSheepJess There were virtually no clues…

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow @TomCostantino No, no, not an "ow". A real scream, in pain.

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

Allow me to reiterate: #TeamJanelTyler
#RenewTheOrville #Ted

[sitcom crave @sitcomcrave]

Michaela McManus as 'Mrs.Robicheck' in:
Ted S2

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

#RenewTheOrville #fortheloveofgod

Seth MacFarlane Teases New Life for ‘The Orville’: “Season 4 Is Written” https://t.co/k0S3TXWiNo via @thr

[Nathan Perry @NateOMatic]

@xeow Give or take fifteen hours.