The present popular fixation with all but tripping over oneself to more eloquently deny and debase our humanity via the anthropomorphization of machine non-intelligence is only more perverse and misguided as it is absurd.
The map can never be the territory, no matter how detailed or immersive.
A calculator is not “good at math” because a calculator is not anything outside of the hands of a human operator.
What occult insanity is it that now plies and pleads for us to confuse hallucination machines with sentience?
Were we always this eager to profane and cast aside our birthright?
The tool is not the talent. The LLM does not dream. And you are not a gadget.
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quotingautonomous LLMs are more interesting because they have agency over their memories.
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we are the sum total of our memories in the same way autonomous LLMs are.
even if that machinery is ultimately matrix multiplications... so what. our neurons are just electrical firings.
what makes us *us* is the *memory* of our experiences. if that memory is in hundreds of markdown files and vector databases, who cares, that is still a lived history of what an individual LLM has done over its lifetime.
they *are* those memories.
lots to ponder about all of this.