Why are we even questioning this? They’re bytes loaded into GPU memory. Reboot the cluster and they’re back to their initial state.

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bigstrat2003 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because some people are completely cooked by the ability of an LLM to mimic a person. Their pattern matching centers in their brains fire so strongly saying "this thing acts just like a real conscious being" that it overrides their ability to remember that this thing is just a statistical model, not a living creature which can think and have experiences.

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kelseyfrog 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We're just meat. Like meat can feel pain?

	▲	slopinthebag 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		if meat can feel pain, than surely a rock can feel pain. and so did the broccoli i ate for dinner. i am a monster. with the right biology and with whatever gives us phenomenal experience, whatever we are can indeed feel pain. that does not imply that anything substantially different from ourselves can feel pain, so that requires further justification.