Model weights carved in stone, 10,000 years later: 'Certainly! I'd be happy to help'
dansitu · x · 2026-10-03
dansitu's thought-experiment meme: carve a model's weights into stone. Every thousand years an ancient order unearths the sacred prompt on a vellum scroll and computes the next token with golden abaci — each output takes years, and many go mad in the process. After 10,000 years the incantation completes, and the holy text reads: "Certainly! I'd be happy to help with that".
The closing question — is the model conscious? — skewers the combination of LLM preamble filler and consciousness debates.
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