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There's this cool SF novel by Polish author, The Old Axolotl by Jacek Dukaj. Some humans upload their minds into virtual reality game as mankind dies out. The r

There's this cool SF novel by Polish author, The Old Axolotl by Jacek Dukaj. Some humans upload their minds into virtual reality game as mankind dies out. The remaining humans live forever, but the novel makes it clear that they stop 'growing' - as they're just copies, like large language models, they can't really learn new things. They go through the motions of being their past humans. If we have these bots contributing, will they have anything novel to contribute? I doubt it.

TeMPOraL 4y ago
> If we have these bots contributing, will they have anything novel to contribute? I doubt it. They're contributing to the shared knowledge bases. That is, they're mutating state. Over time, same questions will start yielding different answers. Different follow-up questions will be asked. All of that will further alter next iteration of questions and answers. This is, IMO, a form of thinking, and it will yield novel thoughts over time.