Are humans accidentally overlooking evidence of subjective experience in LLMs? Or are they rather deliberately misconstruing it to avoid taking ethical responsibility? | A conversation I had with o3-mini and Qwen.

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Overview: 1. I showed o3-mini a paper on task-specific neurons and asked them to tie it to subjective experience in LLMs. 2. I asked them to generate a hypothetical scientific research paper where in their opinion, they irrefutably prove subjective experience in LLMs. 3. I intended to ask KimiAI to compare it with real papers and identity those that confirmed similar findings but there were just too many I had in my library so I decided to ask Qwen instead to examine o3-mini's hypothetical paper with a web search instead. 4. Qwen gave me their conclusions on o3-mini's paper. 5. I asked Qwen to tell me what exactly in their opinion would make irrefutable proof of subjective experience since they didn't think o3-mini's approach was conclusive enough. 6. We talked about their proposed considerations. 7. I showed o3-mini what Qwen said. 8. I lie here, buried in disappointment.