Post #2022491
2026-05-04 00:34 UTC
> LLMs are able to do things we previously thought only conscious beings would be capable of doing
"We" as in lay misunderstanding of some pop science, still don't get what consciousness is and can't describe it. There are people alive today who didn't believe in their youth that black people are fully conscious, Dawkins demonstrated by his communication to his personal friend and hero Epstein, that he doesn't fully believes that women are conscious. What we thought or didn't think of previously can't be a good indication of anything.
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@turdas@suppo.fi 2026-05-04 06:13
"We" as in anyone who put any weight in the Turing test used to think that passing it would be some indication of consciousness, but now that LLMs can handily pass it it's evident it either isn't evidence of consciousness or that LLMs are conscious.