If intelligence is the only thing that defines your humanity, then perhaps you are the one who is nihilistic. I believe we still have a lot on the table left if intelligence is blown away by computers. Not just music, art, emotion, etc. but also our fundamental humanity, the way we interact with the world, build it, and share it with others.

Why don't other forms of computer supremacy alarm you in the same way, anyways? Did it lower your humanity to recognize that there are certain data analysis tasks that have a conventional algorithm that makes zero mistakes and finishes in a second? Does it lower the humanity of mathematicians working on the fluid equations to be using computer-assisted proof algorithms that output a flurry of gigabytes of incomprehensible symbolic math data?

You didn't give any answer to the question. I'm sorry you find the idea that human cognition is just an emergent property of billions of connected weights nihilistic.

Even when we know that physically, that's all that's going on. Sure, many orders more dense and connected than current LLMs, but it's only a matter of time and bits before they catch up.

Grab a book on neurology.

What is it about humans that makes you think we are more than a large LLM?

It's only nihilistic if you think there is something inherently magical/nonphysical about human cognition.

It’s really bizarre. It’s like the sibling comment saying why would humans be different than a large LLM. Where is the evidence humans are simply a large LLM? If that is the case, what is the physics that explains massive difference in power and heat in “computing” between humans at LLMs? Where is the concrete evidence that human intelligence can be simulated by a Turing Machine?