I think that’s plausible but not obvious. We could imagine different implementations of inference engines that cache on different levels—eg kv-cache, cache of only matrix multiplications, cache of specific vector products that the matrix multiplications are composed of, all the way down to caching just the logic table of a NAND gate. Caching NAND’s is basically the same as doing the computation, so if we assume that doing the full computation can produce experiences then I think it’s not obvious which level of caching would not produce experiences anymore.
I think that’s plausible but not obvious. We could imagine different implementations of inference engines that cache on different levels—eg kv-cache, cache of only matrix multiplications, cache of specific vector products that the matrix multiplications are composed of, all the way down to caching just the logic table of a NAND gate. Caching NAND’s is basically the same as doing the computation, so if we assume that doing the full computation can produce experiences then I think it’s not obvious which level of caching would not produce experiences anymore.