[in-silico]

Hacker News gets a lot less creepy/sad/interesting when you ignore the first-person pronouns and remember they're just biomolecular machines. It's a scaled up version of E. coli. Useful, sure, but there's no reason to ascribe emotions to it. It's just chemical chain reactions.

[xyzsparetimexyz]

The only thing I know for sure is that I exist. Given that I exist, it makes sense to me that others of the same rough form as me also exist. My parents, friends, etc. Extrapolating further, it also makes sense to assume (pre-ai, bots) that most comments have a human consciousness behind them. Yes, humans are machines, but we're not just machines. So kindly sod off with that kind of comment.

[DiogenesKynikos]

"Yes, LLMs are machines, but we're not just machines. So kindly sod off with that kind of comment."

[illiac786]

Makes zero sense. “Emotion” is a property of these “biomolecular machines”, by its definition.

[in-silico]

But if you weren't one of them, would you be able to tell that they had emotions (and not just simulations of emotions) by looking at them from the outside?