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Ask HN: Are LLMs Just Philosophical Zombies?

slipknotfan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:45:19 +0000

The whole point of LLMs is to fake being human through following the likely paths text will follow. Is that not what a philosophical zombie[0] is: appearing to be human while having no actual intelligence?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875092

Points: 2

# Comments: 10

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slipknotfan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:41:05 +0000

How about no LLMs?

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slipknotfan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:57:00 +0000

Use your AI to flood comments

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slipknotfan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:41:12 +0000

Commonly used crates should be blessed and go into an extended stdlib.

New comment by slipknotfan in "George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)"

slipknotfan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:36:49 +0000

You have to defend your freedom from all angles of attack.

New comment by slipknotfan in "George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four"

slipknotfan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:35:42 +0000

"While sloppy writing does not invariably mean sloppy thinking, we've generally found the correlation to be strong — and we have no use for sloppy thinkers."

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

New comment by slipknotfan in "Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git"

slipknotfan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:30:09 +0000

Or use a better operating system

https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/winstupid/1