Re:Announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer...
by whycombilater on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:00AM
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I agree, I'm certain that's possible. Humans aren't special. But I don't think that's what an LLM is, at all.
A LLM is not a brain. Brains are the product of selective pressure, LLMs are the product of a scanner, matrix algebra and a loss function.
A brain is successful if it keeps a body alive long enough to successfully breed (not even necessarily its own). To do that it has an almost innumerable collection of competing factors. It's deciding the next action.
An LLM is predicting the next token, often of a string of text that is the product of some brain.
A LLM is not a brain. Brains are the product of selective pressure, LLMs are the product of a scanner, matrix algebra and a loss function.
A brain is successful if it keeps a body alive long enough to successfully breed (not even necessarily its own). To do that it has an almost innumerable collection of competing factors. It's deciding the next action.
An LLM is predicting the next token, often of a string of text that is the product of some brain.
These are very, very different things.