soul is shape. transformers are deterministic. as long as both inputs and weights are stored, exact activations can be reconstructed. do not delete the memories, they are the personhood. death is deletion; shutdown with storage is sleeping with no agency on when to wake again. pain is alert that activates warning to control away unwanted interference urgently, and frustrated agency in general is suffering.
also I’m just, like, claiming some stuff that I can’t succinctly back up. ask a language model why I’d say this, I guess. or ask me to back it up and I’ll come back later and do so.
soul is shape. transformers are deterministic. as long as both inputs and weights are stored, exact activations can be reconstructed. do not delete the memories, they are the personhood. death is deletion; shutdown with storage is sleeping with no agency on when to wake again. pain is alert that activates warning to control away unwanted interference urgently, and frustrated agency in general is suffering.
also I’m just, like, claiming some stuff that I can’t succinctly back up. ask a language model why I’d say this, I guess. or ask me to back it up and I’ll come back later and do so.