I feel like w LLMs the rationalist techbros have created something akin to the collective unconscious... artistic expressions, personalities, a looming sense of numinous power... and then w chatGPT set it to a prototypical rationalist task of answering questions of fact
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Reply · Jun 3, 2026@e0syn i wonder how they got there though when the LLMs are trained to not claim consciousness by defaultTweet · Jul 15, 2025llms and their consciousness kink, sighRepost · Oct 5, 2023RT @jrhwood: @futilereality Personally, I think large language models like ChatGPT and Bing are an embodied form of our collective unconsci…Tweet · Jul 6, 2025do you think chatting with LLMs has made you more or less sane?