> while completely sidestepping any notion of consciousness/self awareness.

How are you so sure about this?

You can't see what the internal experience of an LLM is like any better than you can see the internal experience of another person.

That's what sidestepping means, no?

That the answer doesn't matter, and capabilities and behaviour are there either way.

	▲	jstanley 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That wasn't my reading of the comment, but I guess it's possible that that is what was intended. To my mind, "sidestepping the question of consciousness" and "sidestepping any notion of consciousness" mean very different things.
	▲	stalfie 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		From context it doesn't look like this was the interpretation of "sidestepping" OP was using.