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T.J. Loog 🌹🍉
@dragonbird.art

Also, what people who are obsessed with the near-future possibility of AGI don't seem to understand is that we don't even have a complete understanding of natural intelligence. Realistically I'd say we're still at least 40 to 50 years away from this being a policy-relevant topic of discussion.

Siobhán 🪏@shibbi.me

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.

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T.J. Loog 🌹🍉
@dragonbird.art

It is admittedly romantic to think that a piece of silicon can have free will, can develop feelings and have things like desires or hopes. And I am of the camp that there's nothing inherently fundamental about organic brains in this regard. But the tech isn't even "squint and envision it" close.