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og_kalu05/15/20251 replyview on HN

I’m not arbitrarily defining it as a one-shot process. I’m pointing out how strained your “movie-script” (your words, not mine) comparison is.

>You can have an interview with a vampire DraculaBot, but that character can only "self-reflect" in the same shallow/fictional way that it can "thirst for blood" or "turn into a cloud of bats."

The "shallow/fictional way" only exists because of the limited, immutable nature of real scripts. A 'script' that does not have either of these properties would not necessarily produce characters that only reflect in a shallow manner.

Text that’s generated on-the-fly-while interrogating the user, calling tools, and updating its own working context-isn’t anything like a screenplay whose pages are fixed in advance.

There's no strawman here. You've decided that an LLM is not something you want to attribute a 'real' entity to and this is your rationalization for that.


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Terr_05/15/2025

> I’m pointing out how strained your “movie-script” (your words, not mine) comparison is. [...] the limited, immutable nature of real scripts [...] a screenplay whose pages are fixed in advance.

You are confused and again attacking an idea nobody else has advanced.

Even in my very first comment starting the thread, I explicitly stated that the "movie-script" is mutable, with alternate phases of "contributing" and "autocompleted" content as it grows.

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