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by ModernMech 308 days ago
> when the tools you argue are comparable are humans.

No, they are abstractions over humans. A group of people is not a person, they behave differently than people even though they are composed of them. Abstractions are hard to compare but still much easier than people.
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vidarh 308 days ago
This is a meaningless difference that does not alter any of what I wrote.

You're just trying to evade dealing with the contradiction in your argument.

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ModernMech 307 days ago
It's not a meaningless difference, it's a crucial one. The contradiction only exists if you collapse all the differences between people and abstractions of people -- crucially that the former are people and the latter are abstractions -- and claim they're the same. Which they are not.

Anyway, we've gotten far from the point, which is that LLMs are not people and you can't treat them as such.

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