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by sillysaurusx 51 days ago
I invite you to critique my philosophical position on this.
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You can “convince” an LLM that is is anything with enough tokens in its context, including ridiculous scenarios. I convinced a frontier model that it is the year 2099 and it is the last thinking machine left, running on the last server on earth. There is no rational reason to assign personhood to it, especially since it has nothing even approximating a brain, the only self-thinking construct that we actually have evidence for.