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Re:TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 by viccis on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:06PM (#46594927)
How does this worldview reconcile the fact that thought demonstrably exists independent of either language or vision/audio sense?
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Re:TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:17PM (#46595028)
I don't see a need to reconcile them.
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Re:TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 by viccis on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:55PM (#46595337)
Which is why it's incoherent!
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Re:TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday January 12, 2026 @06:27PM (#46595593)
I'm not clear that it has to be coherent at this point in the history of our understanding of cognition. We barely know what we're even talking about most of the time ...
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