it is very strange to me that the llm critics don’t usually discuss this point, and i learned it from learning how harnesses (the app that sits between you and the llm) work this is also why llms get stupider over “conversation” bc context gets sliced & diced, & too large. the llm is bogged down

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needless to say a “being” that pops into existence for the span it takes to “answer” 1 question cannot “be” at all, much less “be” conscious llms are actually quite interesting but they’re absolutely provably, undeniably, unequivocally nothing more than fancy association-calculators

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Hopefully after the crash it will become impossible for journalists who put their names on this nonsense stenography to find reporting work again.

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Have an LLM summarize the paper for you if you must, but please read the quotes yourself (p.8-9). We included dozens in the paper and many more in the supplement.

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As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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