Mutability should not automatically imply superiority, but either way that's something a great many people are currently working very hard to change. I suspect that it won't be long at all before the descendants of todays LLM's can learn as well, or better, than we can.

Will you then concede that human consciousness isn't "special", or just move the bar further back with talk of the "soul" or some other unprovable intangible?

> In my mind a set of LLM weights is about as alive as a virus (and probably less so).

I wonder what the LLM's would think about it if we hadn't intentionally prevented them from thinking about it?