alt Hacker NewsA stronger version of that argument is that LLMs are not intrinsically affected by the passage of time.
Input stream comes in, input stream comes out. The LLM doesn't care whether this happens once a minute or once a year.
A stronger version of that argument is that LLMs are not intrinsically affected by the passage of time.
Input stream comes in, input stream comes out. The LLM doesn't care whether this happens once a minute or once a year.
I don't normally experience the time interval between when my input streams shut down every night and reboot every morning either, though.
Nothing prevents one from running an LLM whose harness has a clock and a while loop in it, and it would be weird if its mere lack were really so consequential to consciousness.