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Re:How LLMs Work by stevenhuang on Sunday June 07, 2026 @01:29PM (#48436928)
You do realize modern neuroscience considers the human brain as "just" a probability engine and that intelligence may well be the ability for an organism to predict well.

> doesn’t have a semantic understanding of what it is doing

I hope you realize this is an area of open, active research.

Re:How LLMs Work by Chu4eeno on Monday June 08, 2026 @04:06AM (#48442541)
Didn't neuroscience some big scandals about bad statistics and overstating their findings (in addition to normal issues like replication)? Look up at least the "dead salmon study" (hint: it's related to fMRI, and you can probably guess its conclusions from its nickname). The "Voodoo Correlations" and "Cluster Failure" papers are also a bit eye-opening.

In general we (humans) need to be humble about the limitations of our knowledge about how we function, it's an insanely complicated problem.

Re:How LLMs Work by jmalicki on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:46PM (#48450727)
> In general we (humans) need to be humble about the limitations of our knowledge about how we function, it's an insanely complicated problem.

We do.

Which is why we shouldn't be assuming we're more than just probability engines, or be assuming we have more consciousness than a neural network.