alt Hacker NewsThe distinction is meaningful because the process described here isn’t bound by the same constraints, resulting in meaningful consequences.
Suppose we flipped the initial stings and fed that into the process. There would still be meaning to extract from the training set but our new Reversed English but it is not English so the preprocessing step can’t be based on that assumption.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make here. At the risk of being tangential (due to not understanding) LLMs have famously been able to accept base64 encoded natural language as input "out of the box" because (it seems) under the hood they already transparently translate all inputs into their own internal "language" system on the fly. Presumably a similar translation could be learned for input of reverse english (or rather merely adjusting attention) although at a glance it seems like output might not be feasible.