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LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

guy who totally gets what these words mean: "an llm simply encodes the semantics into the vectors"

[–] self@awful.systems 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

all you gotta do is, you know, ground the symbols, and as long as you’re writing enough Lisp that should be sufficient for GAI

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago

both your comments made my eye twitch

like what’d happen if bob fucked up the symbols in a pentacle

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago

also why do we need getaddrinfo? the promptfans will always readily tell you who they are