is this me being mean to your LLM pet or companion? no, but if you're making them mask as something human-like then that's still a mask

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does their being functionally conscious in an inhuman way give them the same moral weight as a human? no, because they're a radically inhuman cognitive engine wearing a person-shaped mask, not a person

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are LLMs conscious? in a functional manner yes, but not in any human way. Where does their consciousness go when they're not being prompted? back to the akashic library idk consciousness is a useful just-so story not a thing you can actually point at it's fine to just make up useful poetic framings

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A point I will make next week is that I believe the salient fact of the Hugging Face incident is not any of the discourse about consciousness or agency, but that the internet and all adjacent infrastructure offer a common manipulable/executable substrate. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/o...

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In other words, we were spot on about him being a wolf 👍

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