A model detached from a harness, sure. But we routinely do add persistent memory to systems incorporating LLMs.

They don’t have persistent memory though. Models are static, what you have is a model that will reprocess the whole series of prompts + some data fetched from a data store. A harness is just a while loop prompting an LLM and executing tool calls, but the model is purely static

	▲	vidarh 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The model does not. The system it runs in can. My agents have persistent memory. It is not at all clear whether or the distinction that the long-term memory is external from the model matters.
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staticman2 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think a harness isn't really a memory in the sense that neural networks have memories...

	▲	vidarh 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's different, but it is not at all clear whether or not that matters for the purposes of whether or not they can experience things, seeing as we don't know how to measure that even for other humans other than by relying on self-reporting to infer without other evidence that their experience matches ours.