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whycombilater • today at 7:05 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

LLMs are just regurgitating an output according to a set of rules generated from harvesting all human output.

Language to humans is a symbolic mapping of labels to reality based on actual experience.

"Language" to LLMs is just a string of tokens to manipulate based on relationships harvested from recorded human experience.

It doesn't mean anything other than 1s and 0s - it's not a language because the LLM isn't communicating with you, just as the sum of humanity isn't communicating with you.

It's just a really good "choose your own adventure" book.


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hardbass • today at 8:28 AM

...do you think molecules and their interactions are also not bounded physical systems? What part of a human being do you think isn't a turing computer? Please release your groundbreaking physics paper proving this.

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