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hlynurdtoday at 9:04 AM1 replyview on HN

>Emotions aren't all learned, a lot of it comes wired in us because that's how we relate to others as a species and as animals, in general.

Yes and no. My understanding is that modern neuroscience is trying to disentangle the raw sensations and contexts from the words we put to them (emotions), kinda like how colors are just wavelengths but we call them different things (like "is my green your green?")


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TuringTesttoday at 9:17 AM

True, but in this context it's worth reminding that LLMs work exclusively from the word descriptions, not having access to the raw sensations.

Everything they learn about emotions is the statistical patterns of how humans react to situations based on their human feelings. There's no direct knowledge from having those feelings themselves.

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