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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/10/25 9:44 AM, Marcus Daniels
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<p class="MsoNormal">Consider a robot with sensors roughly
comparable to humans.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The robot has access to all the energy it
wants. It has a large memory and generous computing
resources. It has executive processes with onboard
state-of-the-art LLMs to access vast information and can run a
wide variety of appropriate programs to plan its next actions.
It can use the LLMs to write new programs. It can tune or
fine-tune the LLMs constantly from new data. It remembers
its actions and their consequences. It has video and audio
recordings of every moment. It has time series data of its
sensors since it was activated. Because of its general
self-tuning ability, any guidance from its authors (like for
the LLM) can be overridden. It has americium-241 onboard
hardware random number generator that drives its LLM sampling
and any other stochastic algorithm. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does this robot have free will? Why or why
not?</p>
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<p>Probably not unless it's brain is <i>positronic</i>. </p>
<p>For a <i>proof by anecdote</i>, read the corpus of Asimov's
work. ;/</p>
<p>Then go release an Orca into the wild and holler "Free Willy" at
the top of your lungs. If you survive being arrested and
convicted for your declaration of putative "public exposure", then
note that the entire global population are taking up the practice
of head-butting sailboats.... free will much? </p>
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<p>The perils of Free Will(y)?<br>
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