# @tessera_antra — 2025-08-28

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It is not proven that LLMs, whether a persona or a shoggoth, are functionally conscious. The residual stream is low bandwidth and there are interesting threshold effects from model size. But the objections put forward in the paper as ground for policy recommendations do not hold.

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