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by grey-area 33 days ago
Humans do not reason by guessing the next most likely token/word. They use logic, morality and systems of thought they have constructed and shared to help them reason and don’t in any way predict tokens in a sequence - we use words to represent our thoughts and feelings about the world, not to construct them.

You’re constructing a post-hoc fantasy of human thought based on how LLMs work because you are desperate for some reason to believe that they are thinking like humans, but they are not. The process is very different and the results are also different.