Why I relate to an LLM more than a scratch-trained RL agent
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-15
Continuing the transhumanism thread, voooooogel agrees posthumans would necessarily differ a lot from humans, but says he can relate to an LLM far more than to a scratch-trained RL agent — despite copying and multiple instances — because the LLM inherits some path dependency from human data.
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