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> LLMs have no homeostatic imperatives (the drive to survive and keep stable).

What if the datacenter (not the model) is the organism, with homeostasis, energy needs, and persistence?

Even from that perspective it would be opening a whole new class of consciousness that doesn't exclude a lot, e.g. factories and powerplants. And certainly not conscious in the way people want to believe when sexting their favorite AI gf.

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