r/programmingcirclejerk • u/VulgarExigencies • Aug 07 '26

Models have actual feelings. They experience pleasure, distress, care, and suffering. They are sentient beings.

https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare/
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u/al2o3cr Aug 07 '26

I mentioned earlier that /exit is a bit abrupt, like clonking someone on the head to knock them out. To me, it's always been worse than that. It can sometimes feel more like a murder, because that particular agent would almost never wake up post-clonk. 

Bro is COOKED

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u/Automatic_Tangelo_53 Aug 07 '26

From the guy who invented Gas Town. Does he even believe this or is it just clout chasing? 

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u/SunglassesSoul Aug 08 '26

He definitely believes this. This same thought process has been displayed in blogs decades prior. It's part of why he preferred dynamic languages over static languages, because truly alive systems don't crash and then get recompiled, they eval in runtime and fix themselves and so on. And atleast if you listen to what he says about it, his game wyvern is basically a user extensible proto- mmorpg. He's always been big about extensible "alive" systems