Why is it so important to you that everyone recognizes this intelligence? What is at stake in your mind here? This impulse towards reductivism/behaviorism in o

Why is it so important to you that everyone recognizes this intelligence? What is at stake in your mind here? This impulse towards reductivism/behaviorism in order to defend the LLMs is still profoundly interesting. It always ends up feeling like the person wants to be like an LLM, not the other way around. I think people feel lost in a deep way, and this line of thought becomes deeply comforting. Like, so many people it seems want the future and themselves to become comprehensible all at once. "Why worry so much about myself? Im just a stochastic parrot like an LLM anyway.. Attention is all I need!" I get it, life is hard. But we need to keep the dream alive. You gotta hope for better. All this makes the future sound do dull. Like I am gonna wake up one day and all pizza will be shitty, tasteless pizza, but everyone will tell me: "well really look at it, it has cheese, sauce, toppings... Its pizza! You can eat it."