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Amarda Shehu's avatar

Thank you for writing this. It put its finger on something that has made me increasingly uneasy, the argument that intelligence is a set of capabilities. It reduces humans to a list of things they can do and can be measured.

Alberto Chierici's avatar

Thank you, Amarda! I'm halfway through your article on Mythos. Thank you for the awesome work surfacing all those important details and other people’s takes in dialogue between them.

Andrew Corner's avatar

You’re hitting most of the right pints sir. Bravo.

Becoming Conscious's avatar

Hi Alberto,

Excellent piece. I agree - we are not special amongst animals. LLM's are not conscious - creatures are conscious _before_ they develop language.

But... I am an engineer who says all we do is match patterns in a biological manner. :-) https://philpapers.org/rec/WOLPIM-3

Knowledge of how a bicycle works does not change the joy of riding a bicycle - just as Knowing that we are a pattern machine does not change the joy of falling in love.