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by xattt 16 days ago
A human has a motive that exists that frames the thought being expressed. An LLM is going to be creating a “de novo” thought in response to a line of questioning.
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Psychology has shown that a lot of those motives are just post hoc narratives, similar to LLM.
Or, as the extreme claim (and the one that I believe), all of them are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism