Re:GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in bluebe...
by ehsankia on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:01PM
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> If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bicycle.
That's irrelevant here, that was someone trying to convert one dish into another dish.
> your mind must perform so many contortions that it defeats the purpose
I disagree, what contortions? The only argument you've provided is that "LLMs don't have senses". Well yes, that's the whole point of an analogy. I still hold that the way LLMs interpret tokens is analogous to a "sense".
> A different analogy could be, imagine a being that had a sense that you "see" magnetic lines, and they showed you an object and asked you
If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bicycle.
At some point to hold the analogy, your mind must perform so many contortions that it defeats the purpose of the analogy itself.