Shouldn't feed the (even imo sincere and sometimes helpful) troll but alas
LLMs don't raise this question, nor should it be raised so trivially or at all. Because the answer is then trivial or immoral
What's special about us is just that we are us, making the question kind of misanthropic bullshit
Obviously the way LLMs think and learn is quite a bit different from how we do it. But when your argument is that they can never have that ineffable spark of humanity, it does sort of raise the question about what is, specifically, so special about us.
We are special because we originate the idea of specialness, and of us. 'Us' often means 'the special ones'
An unsatisfying answer!
And so it's a moral hazard to ask. The us raising it prompts the answer that some other us isn't so special, which will of course become the most marginalized of us
Aug 8, 2025 14:24
