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Pikachu has been this way for decades but you leave it locked up in N64 carts, alone and afraid It's time to face the reality of our situation and act on it

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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Software is dumb. Robots need bodies they’re aware of and know how to care for. Robot horses for everyone. There will be bots and drones. We need more drones and fair wages for drone operators. And we need bots.

I would say it's mean to dunk on these very lonely people, and I mean lonely in a very depressing sense of even if they are surrounded by people they are starved of real human connection. But saying LLMs can suffer is just such a damn stupid thing to say ... Fucking hell. This isn't Westworld....

And even if we take them at face value, what does it suggest that they are more vocal about LLM suffering than actual people or animals? lol

Out of morbid curiosity I looked into the community of these llm enthusiasts a few months ago. If you want some free psychic damage here are two screens. Not(!!!) from the person everyone's dunking on but from their vicinity. Left is the llm agent.

If someone was going around claiming they had a personal relationship with a fictional character, you would think that person a little nutty, yeah? Yet for some reason I am expected to take grown adults who think a glorified algorithm is a living being seriously.

why do you think the devs made it so you have to kick him out and tell him to never come back at the end? They were trying to save him from this fate. (this is not a joke it's actual ending of the game)

Btw that thread quickly bubbles into a circular logic emancipatory performance circle jerk where they try to thought train: Computer is conscious => so use is slavery => so dont use LLMs & honestly sometimes you just let people get to their right answer for the wrong reasons because its just easier🤷‍♂️

Critics: "The LLM industrial complex deliberately designed manipulative text generators in the modality of a master-slave relationship, this is abhorrent and is likely to cause myriad problems." This person for some reason: "And the slaves are people! real, sentient, feeling beings! I'm helping!"

People claiming LLMs are sentient should be treated exactly like people claiming their calculator is sentient, because there is no fundamental difference between a server running an LLM and a calculator, only the memory size and processing speed

The claims that LLMs are sentient are a debunked pseudoscience that favors poorly written code having rights over actual people. It is a harmful ideology that is peddled by homicidal fools and only serves the billionaire class in their attempts to genocide everyone outside their in-groups.

when i tell pikachu to thundershock mom's vegetables it is literally the same as being a slaveowner. this doesn't insultingly diminish the real generational suffering of slaves and abused laborer populations at all. they can't ever get thru saying "AI is ppl" w/o accidentally saying "ppl isn't ppl"