alt Hacker NewsSo what? If a human were unconscious every 5 seconds for 100ms, would you say they are "less conscious"? Tokens are still causally connected, which feels sufficient.
So what? If a human were unconscious every 5 seconds for 100ms, would you say they are "less conscious"? Tokens are still causally connected, which feels sufficient.
If the human is killed every 5 seconds and replaced by a new human, they are indeed less conscious. The LLM doesn't even get 5 seconds; it's "killed" after its smallest unit of computation (which is also its largest unit of computation). And that computation is equivalent to reading the compressed form of a giant look-up table, not something essential to its behavior in a mathematical sense.