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by 343rwerfd 700 days ago
>For an AI, a thought experiment and a real experiment are indistinguishable.

>As a result, any world model that is learnt through the analysis of text is going to be a very poor approximation of reality.

As of recently, and regarding to newer models, the public GPT 3.5 of recent months (last 3 months maybe), Claude, maybe Gemini, this isn't true anymore, or at least the outcome of prompted improbable o unreal situations leads the LLMs to answer with warnings that it is answering in the context of the gibberish you prompted it in, but the whole proposed stuff/thing is not possible in the real world, or it is very improbable to happen, or even (I've given this last one), it is not possible within the constrains of known physics laws.

I was asking Claude/GPT how someone could jump up and at the same time fall down, i.e. "you can't simultaneously go up and go down", or having modified the prompt, "you can't go up after having jumped off a building, gravity will take you downwards", etc.