I'm not understanding how this is analogous to being killed every 5 seconds as opposed to being paused. Let's call it N seconds, unless you think length matters?
reply> And that computation is equivalent to reading the compressed form of a giant look-up table, not something essential to its behavior in a mathematical sense.
Sure, that's a totally separate issue though.
Because (during inference) the LLM is reset after every token. Every human thought changes the thinker, but inference has no consequences at all. From the LLM's "point of view", time doesn't exist. This is the same as being dead.
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