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The Pneumanaut's avatar

Very enjoyable read! I’ve maintained that LLMs are not conscious in the way that we are, but I admit, the notion that my ‘systems’ report sensations, while the me that makes sense of all these by turning it into language (thereby rendering the universe as a cohesive whole that I am able to perceive) is something that gave me pause. I’ve got some pondering to do…which is just what I love to do, so thank you!

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Zak's avatar

This was a challenging read but why is non symbolic knowledge only a message received in translation? Doesn’t a pre-verbal baby or an animal feel pain? This was brilliantly written but perhaps as a joke (I thought that was a possibility but the comments here take the post seriously), perhaps this could be written TO an LLM and then indeed it is quite brilliant (lol). But I can’t see it as relevant to a person. Sorry!

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