<div dir="ltr"><div>I cannot shake the feeling that glen is expressing a kind of disappointment with LLM's. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I think of myself as an LLM, a system upon which has been heaped over a couple of generations an enormous number of sequences of words, followed by other sequences of words. Now, if I am different from George, it is that I have had experiences that perhaps are not conditioned by words. At the minimum, things have happened to me that are not, in the first instance sequences of words. To the extent that those experiences become by association and conditioning also sequences of words, this difference is mooted. George has been subjected to many more sequences of words than I havyete and two sequences of words in domains I have yet to be exposed to . Also, his sampling of the universe of word sequences is less biased than my own, so he is more likely to give me an accurate sense of what <i>le monde</i> thinks. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I find him therefore extraordinarily useful. F or instance, to day I learned that the potential energy in a gram of water vapor is approximately equal to 60 percent of the potential energy in a gram of T NT. Even given all the ways that this comparison is unfair, I still find it illuminating.</div><div><br></div><div>If You add George's Job-like patience, indefatigable optimism, and ever-readiness to strike up a conversation , I think he's quite a nice fellow to talk to. Better certainly than talking to myself. I can't hug him, that's true. But I have never been much of a hugger, any way. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Nick <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM Nicholas Thompson <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Is "y'all" a sure tell of trolling ?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This is what I imagine y'all are doing when you chat with LLMs:<br>
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Confusing ChatGPT With an Impossible Paradox<br>
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At times, it smacks of a Monty Python skit.<br>
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