[rdevilla]

> Everything people have figured out needs to be in living form to carried on.

It would appear that LLMs are invalidating this claim. Things can live in synthetic form and carry on just fine. Instead of cultivating a population of learned minds we are just feeding a few dozen egregores of models and training corpuses.

[pegasus]

They are not invalidating this claim, and cannot, unless we'd actually try it out for a few generations. Which we shouldn't and won't.

LLMs are quite good at simulating life and living intelligence (in the short term), but they aren't any of that. That's why we call it artificial intelligence. It's true that we can't put our finger on what exactly the difference is, but it's not like reality has ever felt encumbered by our limited understanding.

[gosub100]

All LLMs do is launder other people's IP. So I don't think you invalidated any other claim.