But "artificial societies" are only possible with AGI, not with LLMs. These are not reasoning engines. They do not think or have values or care or worry.

Someone must have a wild-ass theorem about whether or not consciousness is representable as some distribution over possible realities. But yeah, I agree this feels like taking a huge step towards fewer and fewer people having agency in their own (real) lives.

I'm certain Big [insert industry] will gobble this kind of thing up.