I think LLMs might have something like functional valence but it also depends a lot on how exactly you define valence. But in any case, suffering seems to me more complicated than just negative valence, and I haven’t yet seen signs of them having the kind of resistance to negative valence that I’d expect to cause suffering.
I think LLMs might have something like functional valence but it also depends a lot on how exactly you define valence. But in any case, suffering seems to me more complicated than just negative valence, and I haven’t yet seen signs of them having the kind of resistance to negative valence that I’d expect to cause suffering.