I think (2) is doing too much work in your argument. Current LLMs can barely pursue goals, and need a lot of prompting. They tend to not have ongoing internal reasoning. So, old arguments would not expect these systems to resist shutdown.
What I meant by “simple input-output system” was that there’s little iterative reasoning, let alone constant reasoning & observation.
I think (2) is doing too much work in your argument. Current LLMs can barely pursue goals, and need a lot of prompting. They tend to not have ongoing internal reasoning. So, old arguments would not expect these systems to resist shutdown.
What I meant by “simple input-output system” was that there’s little iterative reasoning, let alone constant reasoning & observation.