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maxericksontoday at 1:37 AM1 replyview on HN

Of course they are themselves. The question is whether they are a different self.


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margalabargalatoday at 1:55 AM

The answer to that can be anything anyone would like it to be, depending on what definition of "self" they choose.

I don't see why hardware is any more fungible than a kidney. If your LLM reads the serial numbers of its motherboard/RAM/etc as a seed for entropy you can make identical arguments about body fungibility and self.