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Comment by softwaredoug

The main "feature" of LLM is it has world-knowledge and can create plausible arguments for just about everything. "Nothing is true, Anything is possible"

Which is a fascinating thing to think about epistemologically. Internally consistent knowledge of the LLM somehow can be used to create an argument for nearly anything. We humans think our cultural norms and truths are very special, that they're "obvious". But an LLM can create a fully formed counterfactual universe that sounds? is? just as plausible.

parent softwaredoug 10 months ago

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