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2026-07-21 06:59 UTC

Uhm a feeling to a model can just be a higher or lower value of a control node or something developed internally it isn’t special or anything just an existing concept that applies. I think you are assigning superficial meaning to words as if they are what makes us special, because if that were true LLM’s would win ha.

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@luciferofastora@feddit.org 2026-07-21 08:03

just an existing concept that applies What exactly is that concept? How would it be “developed internally”? I think you are assigning superficial meaning to words Isn’t the meaning of words a philosophical question? I was trying to treat feelings as the most basic, physical phenomenon of sentient beings without any metaphysical interpretation, so as to avoid philosophy. If we want to expand that concept beyond the physical expression, we’re immediately in philosophical territory. My point: To even make the claim that LLMs can have compunction is inherently philosophical. We simply cannot talk about LLMs as anything but mathematical token processors without assigning some meaning to those tokens and mathematics. We cannot discuss compunction without clarifying what compunction means. So either you’re willing to discuss semantics and meaning in defence of your claim, or your claim is a meaningless string of symbols arranged in a plausibly human-soundint pattern.

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