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Re:Large Language Models: Scaling Laws and Emergent Properties by hooloovoo_zoo on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:03PM (#35658458)
No, I’m saying having a finite number of neurons doesn’t imply a particular number of brain states. Scaling laws actually don’t apply very strictly to brain size. For example, whales have very large brains but aren’t generally thought to be more capable of reasoning than humans. Women generally have smaller brains than men but aren’t thought to be less capable of reasoning.
Re:Large Language Models: Scaling Laws and Emergent Properties by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday April 22, 2023 @08:24AM (#35665891)
> No, I’m saying having a finite number of neurons doesn’t imply a particular number of brain states.

But of course it does imply that. It's vast but necessarily finite number of "brain states" however that's defined, which is itself a subset of the vast but also finite number of states of the finite number of component particles.