Their world model is completely a byproduct of language though, not experience. Furthermore, they by deliberate design do not maintain any form of self-recognition or narrative tracking, which is the necessary substrate for developing validating experience. The world model of an LLM is still a map. Not the territory. Even though ours has some of the same qualities arguably, the identity we carry with us and our self-narrative are incredibly powerful in terms of allowing us to maintain alignment with the world as she is without munging it up quite as badly as LLM's seem prone to.
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