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by sosodev 263 days ago
The bot will only do whatever you tell it if that's what it was trained to do. The same thing broadly applies to humans.

The topic of free will is debated among philosophers. There is no proof that it does or doesn't exist.

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Okay, but I think we can all agree that humans at least appear to have free will and do not simply follow instructions with the same obedience as an LLM.
Humans pretty universally suffer in perpetual solitary confinement.

There are some things that humans cannot be trained to do, free will or not.