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windexh8ertoday at 3:36 PM1 replyview on HN

"They" don't "care" about anything. It is a stateless computational run across thousands of semiconductors. There is no objective this software has other than the computational function completing. To care would mean the model would have a level of discernment that goes along with sentience.


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js8today at 5:05 PM

You are kind of ignoring the Dennett's idea of different stances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_stance

You're looking at humans from intentional stance, but at LLMs from design stance, which would be a form of categorical error.