Lying by the way is usually caught up in various ways to defray the threat to ego (self esteem) and defray or delay natural/social/legal consequences. The latter is caught up in body.

I'm not sure I would give llms the benefit of the doubt to have obtained those faculties.

> can't fit all the "knowledge" out there

know-that is less important than know-how in the longer run. knowledge pertains to the know-how (or theory) than about know-that (facts)

> default behavior of the chimp is to handle that reality - hallucinations and bullshitting

default behavior of bullshitting is not perhaps as much a status or hierarchy thing as it serves a role in communicating human meaning which could be contradictory and not logical in nature. What is logical is that meaning is that which has been organized by a know-how or theory - but then, due to its formalization tends to be stale. Imagine if all of us only made logically correct statements - we'd be robots in a stale world.

We don't know that. Given how environmental factors fuck up plenty of neutral layers and synaptic graphs, there is reason to believe that if we stopped or reversed that, human brains might be able to fit all the knowledge out there, given enough time. The constraint then would be preference. Because let's be honest, you wouldn't give a fuck about the Kardashians and the history of their influence on markets and teen desires in America.