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by Self-Perfection 13 days ago
> People are not. Humans have an inner world and subjective experience. Humans learn through their experiences, not just backprop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

But this is complicated and takes us sideways. Let's say somehow we can determine if LLM has inner world or/and subjective experience. Will this new gathered piece of information affect your estimate of upper bounds of LLM capabilities? It does not affect my estimate.

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The Philosophical Zombie thought process is dumb, because zombies don't exist, so the entire premise depends on something that quire frankly might be impossible for the very reason it is arguing against.