Re:Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
by moritzwarhier on Thursday December 04, 2025 @12:01AM
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> Why are you just taking it for granted it can write coherent text, which is a miracle, and not believing any other miracles?
That "miracle" thing does not seem like a logical argument to me.
And "Paris is the capital of France" is a coherent sentence, just like "Paris dates back to Gaelic settlements in 1200 BC", or "France had a population of about 97,24 million in 2024".
The coherence of sentences generated by LLMs is "emergent" from the unbelievable amount of data and training, just like the correct factoids ("Paris is the capital of France").
It shows that Artificial Neural Networks using this architecture and training process can learn to fluently use language, which was the goal? Because language is tied to the real world, being able to make true statements about the world is to some degree part of being fluent in a language, which is never just syntax, also semantics.
I don't understand what the the "other miracle" (apart from generating human language) you are referring to is.
That "miracle" thing does not seem like a logical argument to me.
And "Paris is the capital of France" is a coherent sentence, just like "Paris dates back to Gaelic settlements in 1200 BC", or "France had a population of about 97,24 million in 2024".
The coherence of sentences generated by LLMs is "emergent" from the unbelievable amount of data and training, just like the correct factoids ("Paris is the capital of France").
It shows that Artificial Neural Networks using this architecture and training process can learn to fluently use language, which was the goal? Because language is tied to the real world, being able to make true statements about the world is to some degree part of being fluent in a language, which is never just syntax, also semantics.
I don't understand what the the "other miracle" (apart from generating human language) you are referring to is.