Do LLMs Pass the Mirror Test? — 70 Points, 62 Comments on HN
Pascal Schuster / Hacker News·medium signal
Pascal Schuster's essay adapts the animal-cognition mirror test to LLMs, probing whether models can recognize their own outputs by style and reasoning fingerprints rather than exhibiting any true self-awareness. It drew 62 comments on Hacker News debating where function-based self-recognition ends and anthropomorphism begins — useful framing for builders evaluating model introspection and self-reported uncertainty in agentic systems.