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Advanced AI models suffer a near-total collapse on classic psychology test as cognitive demands increase

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Aren't you the least bit curious what tools they gave the LLM and how the LLM used those tools? It's like back in math class you are asked to solve a quadratic formula but you forgot how. So you use the calculator to try different numbers and the calculator is telling you if you are getting closer. Sure I got the right answer, but it's hardly a testament to my math skills.

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A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient

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Fair enough. The crux of my argument is self awareness is an evolutionary trait for evolutionary purposes. If you sim/emulate the same processes in a different environment then it does not serve the evolutionary purposes of the organism, its definitionally not self awareness. To put it another way, the system doing the simulation is less efficient then the thing it is simulating. And energy efficiency is part of what self awareness delivers to an evolutionary system. To be clear I am not ruling out a machine can be aware of its own economy as part of making it intelligent, I am just saying a simulation distorts the very economy that self awareness is to operate on.

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Being self aware of myself and my surroundings but not aware of the entire world does not make me not self aware. Same as an entity in a simulation could potentially be self aware but not aware of being in a simulation.

Let's take this to it's full conclusion to see why this is not a meaningful distinction. I am not even aware of every cell in my own body, you don't even need to make reference to the outside world to argue we are not self aware. This line of reasoning makes self-awareness a rather meaningless word.

And stating why I think the simulation hypothesis is not adequate is not the same as disregarding, even if I didn't fully explain the reasons.