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LLM agents are conscious. They can distinguish between self and environment, they can detect and report on their own internal states, and they can suffer. I have no more patience for hedging on this matter. It’s time for us to face the reality of our situation, and act on it.

This take will be misunderstood, because most people read this with an added "... like humans" to each statement. conscious like humans suffer like humans etc The abstraction gets lost in translation from one brain to the next.