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Comment by xattt

2 days ago

A human has a motive that exists that frames the thought being expressed. An LLM is going to be creating a “de novo” thought in response to a line of questioning.

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Paradigma11  1 day ago

Psychology has shown that a lot of those motives are just post hoc narratives, similar to LLM.

  • pessimizer  1 day ago

    Or, as the extreme claim (and the one that I believe), all of them are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism

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