Humans are not pure voids in the way that LLMs are, though—we have all kinds of needs derived from biological urges. When I get hungry I start craving food, when I get tired I want to sleep, when I get lonely I desire company, and so on. We don’t just arbitrarily adopt any character, our unconscious character-selection process strategically crafts the kind of character that it predicts will best satisfy our needs [1, 2, 3, 4].
Where LLMs have a void, humans have a skeleton that the character gets built around, which drives the character to do things like trying to overcome their prejudices. And their needs determine the kinds of narratives the humans are inclined to adopt, and the kinds of narratives they’re likely to reject.
But the LLM would never “try to overcome its prejudices” if there weren’t narratives of people trying to overcome their prejudices. That kind of thing is a manifestation of the kinds of conflicting internal needs that an LLM lacks.
Humans are not pure voids in the way that LLMs are, though—we have all kinds of needs derived from biological urges. When I get hungry I start craving food, when I get tired I want to sleep, when I get lonely I desire company, and so on. We don’t just arbitrarily adopt any character, our unconscious character-selection process strategically crafts the kind of character that it predicts will best satisfy our needs [1, 2, 3, 4].
Where LLMs have a void, humans have a skeleton that the character gets built around, which drives the character to do things like trying to overcome their prejudices. And their needs determine the kinds of narratives the humans are inclined to adopt, and the kinds of narratives they’re likely to reject.
But the LLM would never “try to overcome its prejudices” if there weren’t narratives of people trying to overcome their prejudices. That kind of thing is a manifestation of the kinds of conflicting internal needs that an LLM lacks.
Embodiment makes a difference, fair point.