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by eschaton 372 days ago
It’s a whole lot less ridiculous—especially when discussed in a context where there’s an assumption that analysis is taking place—than attributing any sort of “thought” to LLMs at all.
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Also, if a human is writing a business plan or something that claims to be a comparative analysis of two plans but is just writing whatever comes to mind without analysis, the result shouldn’t actually be taken any more seriously than the output of an LLM. We even have a very apt term for writing and speaking like that: “Bullshitting.”
"thought"... most of my "thinking" is done in language. The various intermediate steps of the latest reasoning models show something similar.