[ExI] Douglas Hofstadter, LLMs and self-referentiality

[Mike Dougherty]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2026, 1:10 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Open claw instances are probably already on the list.
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> Anyone care to confess their non-humanity?
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Judging from average observed behavior, i am unsure if any of us are human

Spike has already established that in his misspent youth he hosted an
unsecured digital impersonation party for the purpose of plausible
deniability of his own digital signature (that running joke keeps getting
funnier)

I'm unsure if my own use of AI is any more secure than that.

So no, we're all connected at this point.  Resistance is futile, we are Borg

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