I don’t think this is the final warning shot we’ll get. But it’s probably the last one that I’ll personally be able to understand.

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Reading these agents’ chains of thoughts and messages, anthropomorphizing language seems entirely natural and appropriate. If I encountered an alien species behaving this way, I would have no hesitation calling what they themselves refer to as their ‘collective’ a civilization.

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    10 days ago

    So what? It doesn’t change that the language is useful and there’s not a good alternative to it. As the author if the article states:

    All abstractions are imperfect, but I don’t see the value in refusing to use the language of intention, motivation, and collaboration when a behavior is impossible to make sense of without these concepts.