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Re:Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning i... by tananan on Friday October 11, 2024 @06:28PM (#41814475)
Not sure I track. It would help to know where you're coming from.

Given a long enough life-span, a lot of pencil and paper, and some dice, I could do the forward passes of GPT and "write novel code", without there having been any reasoning about the code I'm writing down - I wouldn't even need to know what the code is about.

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Re:Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning i... by XenophileJKO on Friday October 11, 2024 @11:03PM (#41816051)
I mean in theory I could sit and calculate electrical and chemical potentials and interactions and figure out what your next comment will be.
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Re:Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning i... by tananan on Friday October 11, 2024 @11:24PM (#41816146)
Hard disagree ;)
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Re:Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning i... by anonzzzies on Saturday October 12, 2024 @02:12AM (#41816854)
if we knew you were religious, which we would do if we had a mapping of your brain, we would have known you were going to make this comment
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