The interaction is between nodes in the model. Those are the components that individually have no real characteristics, but when combined into a billion-dimension model, that results in emergent properties. Correctly writing novel code is an emergent property. Correctly solving an ASCII art maze is an emergent property. There is a point where a text predictor, being sufficiently accurate, demonstrates emergent understanding.

Your definition emergent property is outright wrong.

Your description is how pre-llm chatbots work. They were really bad, obviously. It's overly simplified to the point of dishonesty for llms though.

Emergent properties don't require feedback. They just need components of the system to interact to produce properties that the individual components don't have. The llm model is billions of components interacting in unexpected ways. Emergent properties are literally the only reason llms work at all. So I don't think it's absurd to think that the system might have other emergent properties that could be interpreted to be actual understanding.

I think you two might be working with different definitions of deserve

I just installed mint on a new laptop. The wifi surprisingly didn't work on the liveusb, but switching to the Edge release with a newer kernel worked fine.

Linux sucks for natural reasons. It's easy to tolerate because it's not trying to fuck with you, it's just a consequence of being a hodgepodge of software written by nerds for nerds. Windows sucks for malicious reasons. Microsoft is intentionally making it worse, to make more money, and that pisses me off. MacOS sucks because it assumes you're an idiot, and wants to protect itself from you. I may be an idiot, but that shouldn't stop me from breaking my own machine, god damnit!

I remember reading (but not where, or how true it is) that tobacco use doesn't impact the healthcare system much at all, because smokers tend to die younger, and old age is the most expensive and longest illness to treat.