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Re:Language is not essential for the cognitive processes tha... by theptip on Saturday October 19, 2024 @09:56PM (#41892309)
Humans copy/paste from SO too. Does that prove humans can’t reason?
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Re:Language is not essential for the cognitive processes tha... by fuzzfactor on Saturday October 19, 2024 @10:03PM (#41892339)
>Does that prove humans can’t reason?

It could be said not as well as the ones that don't need SO.

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Re:Language is not essential for the cognitive processes tha... by fhdsgbbcaA on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:13AM (#41893032)
If you don’t read or understand the code, then no, you aren’t reasoning.

The condition of “some people are bad at thing” does not equal “computer better at thing than people”, but I see this argument all the time in LLM/AI discourse.

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