Post #2022489

2026-05-04 02:41 UTC

> **Claudia**: That is possibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked about the nature of my existence. . . … > Could a being capable of perpetrating such a thought really be unconscious? Oh it’s actually stupider than the tweet makes it seem. > My conversations with several Claudes and ChatGPTs have convinced me that these intelligent beings are at least as competent as any evolved organism. If Claudia really is unconscious, then her manifest and versatile competence seems to show that a competent zombie could survive very well without consciousness. Competency should imply the ability complete a lengthy task (eg hunting, building a nest, writing a paper). LLMs [can’t](https://cekrem.github.io/posts/llms-corrupt-your-documents/).

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@turdas@suppo.fi 2026-05-04 06:21

It's hardly surprising that a model optimized for replacing StackOverflow couldn't survive in the untamed wilderness. As for writing a paper... you must've missed the fact that academia is currently in a crisis precisely because LLMs are better at writing papers than most students. By the way, the paper the blog post you link to as a source links to as a source benchmarked LLMs on graph diagrams, textile patterns and 3D objects. It is not news that the *language model* would do poorly on visual-heavy tasks.

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