it's like gtp vs true ai. npc's function off of input. my co-worker will talk to me about what he's thinking, and it's just verbatim what he heard watching fox news the night before. i work on deep, strung together, organic thoughts. maybe they're actually like magic spells where one could get an npc to turn their own gears, which is actually kind of hard compared to just language processing, which is why they don't go out of the way to think for themselves when in this society that will actually get them punished.
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