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There's a massive difference between "I have no reason to believe you are anything but a stochastic parrot" and "you are a stochastic parrot".





If we're at the point where planning what I'm going to write, reasoning it out in language, or preparing a draft and editing it is insufficient to make me not a stochastic parrot, I think it's important to specify what massive differences could exist between appearing like one and being one. I don't see a distinction between this process and how I write everything, other than "I do it better"- I guess I can technically use visual reasoning, but mine is underdeveloped and goes unused. Is it just a dichotomy of stochastic parrot vs. conscious entity?

Then I'll just say you are a stochastic parrot. Again, solipsism is not a new premise. The philosophical zombie argument has been around over 50 years now.



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