Enough Writing Can Lossily Upload an Author into an LLM Today, Argues Thread
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-10
A debate on LLMs and mind uploading: the quoted take argues you don't need brain implants—enough of an author's writing can already lossily upload them into an LLM, something Robin Hanson didn't anticipate. jdpressman notes the common intuition that LLMs are computationally expensive and more a blurry upload of humanity collectively than a de novo mind design, but finds that intuition strained when RL dominates over pretraining.
Related event: AI Community Debates Hanson Timeline: Are LLMs Lossy Uploads or New Minds(7 posts)→
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