> Replication someone else's reasoning isn't reasoning. Otherwise, a book would "reason".
This isn't reasoning. This is a meaningless platitude. Matching the level of reasoning of someone else would inherently be reasoning. Replicating the level of reasoning would be.
> And, yes, most humans fail to reason properly a lot of the time. Any simple probability puzzle shows that.
That is an argument for lowering the bar for assessing whether an entity has the ability to reason, not raising it. Using this as an argument to me is another illustration of poor reasoning. Should I argue that you don't have the ability to reason because I don't think this meets the bar of proper reasoning?
They were not ad hominems as they did not attack you, but the validity of your arguments. This is also an example of invalid reasoning.
I'll note that my point throughout has been that humans - myself included - engage in poor reasoning all the time and that this is insufficient to say anything about our general abilities (at least absent subjecting it to broader testing), and so individual examples of poor reasoning is not a basis for judging a person. But also not for judging an LLM.
This isn't reasoning. This is a meaningless platitude. Matching the level of reasoning of someone else would inherently be reasoning. Replicating the level of reasoning would be.
> And, yes, most humans fail to reason properly a lot of the time. Any simple probability puzzle shows that.
That is an argument for lowering the bar for assessing whether an entity has the ability to reason, not raising it. Using this as an argument to me is another illustration of poor reasoning. Should I argue that you don't have the ability to reason because I don't think this meets the bar of proper reasoning?