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(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory

Look obviously a lil guy in a room with a bunch of lookup tables in a language he can't understand doesn't form a sentient system, but if the lil guy speaks Chinese? hot damn then maybe we're onto something

guy who thinks the Chinese Room as a system is conscious with respect to the outside world but that the dude inside the room may as well be a p-zombie ...wait, i think that's my actual view, shit

Didn't realize Searle's argument was with the human doing the computation. Of course that system would be conscious too? What does Searle even think a mind *is* other than information which the system *has*? Incredibly silly argument

i guess i agree with Searle that the guy in the room doesn't understand Chinese. but also he doesn't *need* to, because i think the combined system knows Chinese. and if the room operator memorizes the rules, the persona *of the system* doesn't have the guy's qualia, so they're different entities