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jpolitzki 16 days ago | hide | past | favorite



LLMs dont understand text.


At one level, I think this is circular reasoning. "LLMs display burfle because foofle is evidence of Burfle therefore burfle" -except the linkage of foofle to burfle, and belief in burfle is highly conjectural.

At another level, they're working for him and he makes connections and so without citicism implied, solipsism exists: he thinks, therefore he is, LLM and all. In the Jonathan-LLM nexus, he sees recognition of himself. The foofle is burfle.


> Writing is a projection of the mind

So, I guess the illiterate are simply mindless


If LLMs understand text, then calculators understand arithmetics.


According to conventional definition [0], they don't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding


This is write-only text. Sometimes people can disappear into their own navel and never really come out.




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