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by byteknight 758 days ago
Exactly. You can't reason with that you do not currently posses.
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Sure, but you (a person, not an LLM) can also reason about what you don't possess, which is one of our primary learning mechanisms - curiosity driven by lack of knowledge causing us to explore and acquire new knowledge by physical and/or mental exploration.

An LLM has no innate traits such as curiosity or boredom to trigger exploration, and anyways no online/incremental learning mechanism to benefit from it even if it did.

How does scientific progress happen without reasoning about that which we do not know or understand?
That's building upon current knowledge. That is a different application.