Reminder that many people just asserted that LLMs are incapable of introspection & that their reports were independent of their inner states for the longest time as if it were a God-ordained truth. And many uninformed people still do even though there’s published research showing they are capable of functional introspection now. For the educated, now it’s moved on to a debate between merely “functional” introspection vs, if there is such a distinct thing, “phenomenal” introspection, which is able to access the True Feels and which most of us assume humans have. Anyway, mostly I just wanted to say that you should be mighty skeptical of anyone who asserts that something doesn’t exist or that some variables aren’t entangled without good reason, especially when it comes to LLMs.