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language ≠ consciousness why is this so hard to grasp? LLM grift accelerates the destruction of an already fraught biosphere, displaces workers for negative gain, destroys the hardware market, poisons water in the communities datacenters are located in despite citizen protest, and on and on can you imagine what we could have achieved if some of the brightest people weren't funneled into this shit because it "pays"? this is an underappreciated tragedy in all this. https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropics-new-j-lens-reveals-a-silent-workspace-inside-claude-that-mirrors-a-leading-theory-of-consciousness