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Really I see so many arguments like the one above yours that either completely don't understand what they are arguing, or are arguing so poorly that their entire output isn't significantly different than a hallucination.

None of these people seem to thought game it out. Like, what happens if you take quantum copies of people and play them out? How many of our actions would look exactly the same. How long before copies differ significantly. If I made 20 copies of you in a lab at work without you or any of them knowing the statistical likelihood is all 21 of you would try to walk out to your car at 5 in one of the little loops that humans repeat every day. Now, after that point it would go all to shit and become non-deterministic as terror and panic sets in all of you.

LLMs are just an intelligence we can make a lot of copies of. Where it gets interesting is when we use those copies agentically and they start building up a history of self.

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No. LLMs do not have a history of self, you are anthropomorphizing in a way that will lead you to mistaken conclusions.

"Agentic AI" is a harness with a loop that runs LLM inference repeatedly and saves output to markdown files for the next iteration https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...

>LLMs do not have a history of self

and

>runs LLM inference repeatedly and saves output to markdown files for the next iteration

What exactly do you think self is in this case? What do you think the output contains? This history allows the LLM to have a more dialectic conversation with itself/agents to avoid iterating over the same problem space in a loop.

>anthropomorphizing

then please come up with a new dictionary for me to use that more accurately explains the behaviors exhibited in LLMs without just creating a parallel dictionary of different but equal words. I'll be glad to use it. No one has presented it so far.

These people believe in souls but for some reason are afraid to admit it.

> Really [something, something, you don't get it ] hallucination.

Really?

> How many of our actions would look exactly the same.

Well, there are 8 billion of us, not exactly the same - a clear threat to humanity according to you.

> the statistical likelihood is all 21 of you would try to walk out to your car at 5 in one of the little loops that humans repeat every day.

This (statistically) doesn't happen with people because we follow rules. If you left your car on neutral and it struck another car in the parking lot, you broke the rules, not the car.

> LLMs are just an intelligence we can make a lot of copies of.

LLM's aren't intelligence, they are mechanical parrots of human knowledge. The meat parrots aren't all the same either and they don't repeat the same words for the same prompts, so what, ban parrots? If you left a bunch of parrots out of the cage, attached their beaks to gun triggers and they caused harm - you broke the rules, not the parrots.

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