[thedorkknight]

It absolutely can have an inner state. The guy I was responding however was speculating that it has an inner state that is in contradiction with it's output:

>In many ways, it felt like a broader mirror of liberal racism, where people believe things but can't say them.

[hgsgm]

It's more accurate to say that it has two inner states (attention heads) I'm tension with each other. It's cognitive dissonance. Which describes "liberal racism" too -- believing that "X is bad" and also believing that "'X is bad' is not true".