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chongliyesterday at 8:33 PM1 replyview on HN

If an AI can communicate its findings to us in a way that we can understand it, then its findings are by definition intelligible to humans. Your claim was about texts for which this is not possible.


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a2ff6eeb0yesterday at 8:54 PM

So, you're willing to claim that a conclusion that you don't understand the reasoning for is equivalent to comprehension?

Because, again, I can point to hundreds of examples of texts where nobody but the author understands it, and they're only giving summarized "commandments" that you should follow if you want good results.

If I told you "don't use spin locks, call futex instead", do you think have gained an understanding of the Linux scheduler?

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