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You get my point. It definitely doesn’t look like my elderly neighbour, nor like my daughter, etc. It is confusing but very simple at the same time.
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hardbass • yesterday at 7:57 AM
It looks like a random bunch of inert chemicals to me, doesn't sound like some organic chemicals and electrical signals could result in consciousness.
How are you sure? Another example I like to clarify my thought is, if a "simulation" factors RSA numbers reliably, is it a "simulation"?
Compare grep, sed, and your whole constellation of unix tools that accept characters on stdin and emit them on stdout and stderr; and where you can pipe them together. We can technically call them all 'next character predictors', despite their very different functions.
Don't confuse the stream for the function.
(Bonus: stick ```claude -p``` in your pipe if you want to watch modern tools mesh with traditional)