indiscriminate use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models, in which tails of the original content distribution disappear. We refer to this effect as ‘model collapse’
Fascinating to note the response that is invoked here - a sort of coprophagic disgust.
For most people, their personality is something unnoticed, and in effect undetectable, in the present moment. It’s what they look through, or where they look from; not something they look at.
Fascinating misunderstanding of subjectivity here.
The self is clearly not the only thing that is thought of as a subject of experience: it’s just as natural (or more natural) for us to say that a human being considered as a whole is a subject of experience
This isn't clear at all. It is non-obvious to consider any multiplicity in subjective experience unless you conflate privileged access with distinct subjectivity.
A third and still stronger version rejects materialism, claiming that the self is ontologically distinct from anything physical. But this dualist, or idealist, idea is not an integral part of the sense of the self.
As though the presumption that the self has a physical ontology is "an integral part" of it.
the self is distinct not only from any conscious mental goings-on, but also from any non-conscious mental features like beliefs, preferences, stored memories, character traits
This then challenges the notion of a self having a personality that is ontologically distinct from conscious & non-conscious mental activity.
I’m not claiming that the sense of the self automatically incorporates belief in an immaterial soul, or in life after bodily death. It doesn’t. Philosophical materialists have it as strongly as anyone else, although they believe, as I do, that we are wholly physical beings, and that consciousness evolved by purely physical processes.
Interesting to see a materialist deal with the self by objectifying it.
mythic point oforigin for Western civilization
related to:: [[Peter Kingsley]]