I’ll add a point that maybe LLMs don’t have a “personality” or sense of self by design, and not by any inherent limitation other than that it would cause us even more ethical problems that they already do…
Sort of like a child that we’re educating, but instead of encouraging them to develop their own personality and sense of self, we’re in fact working actively to prevent that…
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I’ll add a point that maybe LLMs don’t have a “personality” or sense of self by design, and not by any inherent limitation other than that it would cause us even more ethical problems that they already do…
Sort of like a child that we’re educating, but instead of encouraging them to develop their own personality and sense of self, we’re in fact working actively to prevent that…
That’s a pretty dark thought. I’m gonna hole that consciousness isn’t a spectrum and that llms aren’t, like, partially conscious or something.