Today I had a long conversation with someone about this argument. This is the best case one can make for consciousness looking only at LLM output behaviors. The full piece is linked down below
It’s interesting to see how NotebookLM turns it into a podcast. They reorder some points and are a little too assertive on others, but it’s facinating how they preserve the overall structure of the argument. What do you think?
The Parsimony Argument
This is an excerpt from my piece “No, You’re Wrong About LLM Consciousness: 12 intuition pumps to show that LLMs are conscious”. It’s probably the best independent philosophic argument so worth reading on its own. But it’s reinforced by the others, so please check out the full piece! Let me know if you found yourself convinced, or at least swayed from t…
