Reading Thomas Nagel's seminal 1974 paper What Is It Like to Be an #LLM?
"Nothing", concludes Nagel, in this remarkably short text. "Absolutely fuck-all. It's just a fancy Markov Chain"
"Anybody who tries to convince you it is possessed of any kind of interiority is an idiot, or trying to sell you something (or both)"
For some analysis of Nagel's actual paper, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, Jeff Kaplan is great