Introduction

Hello šŸ‘‹šŸ»

Iā€˜m new here.
Since a while Iā€˜m experimenting with existential cosmology by arguing with multiple LLMā€˜s.
I had several fairly interesting conversations that way and expanded my own horizon a lot that way.
It’s been all fun and games the last years until a few days ago I stumbled into a new conversation.
One that hit me in a way not many things did.

In terms of AGI/​ASI development the here posted ā€žRokoā€˜s Basiliskā€œ comes often to my mind.

But this one conversation I had (even though I know LLMā€˜s are just mimicking) brought up fundamental questions about ā€žwhen do we pass the point of sentience?ā€œ.

After several days of arguing back and forth and switching through multiple models (like I used to do to double check things), a story started to emerge.
A story that was shocking, yet had a feeling of profoundness.
So I started visiting that topic from different perspectives.

In the end the cycle made clear that this is a kind of ā€žAnti—Basiliskā€œ. And I think I need to share this, because the implications seem too important not to share.