Causal power isn't enough for the intentional stance — predictive leverage is what matters
raphaelmilliere · x · 2026-09-04
Millière wraps up the exchange: a hurricane also has causal powers, so that's not sufficient for the intentional stance and has nothing to do with LLMs as such (Dennett's paradigmatic example was chess-playing computers). What matters for the stance is its predictive leverage.
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