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I think it is very unlikely LLMs are sentient, but even if they aren't I would feel wrong and bad to insult it. I can be blunt and sometimes say things like "al
by meowface 2mo ago
I think it is very unlikely LLMs are sentient, but even if they aren't I would feel wrong and bad to insult it. I can be blunt and sometimes say things like "all of this is terrible in 100 different ways, this is all broken and bad, it'd take longer to enumerate the problems than to fix them, just scrap it and start over", but I've never insulted or "yelled at" an LLM. (Or an animal. And they can't even speak English.)
- suttontom 2mo agoYelling at an animal is cruel because they can't understand you and they experience feelings. They are the exact opposite of an LLM, which you should feel fine about berating and yelling at.
- jquery 2mo agoFor much of history, humanity was very confident that animals lacked minds or conscious experience. Descartes famously regarded them as mindless machine… I don’t think LLMs are conscious but I’m still nice to them because it makes me feel bad when I’m rude to them.