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[Nicholas Thompson]

I cannot shake the feeling that glen is expressing a kind of disappointment
with LLM's.

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 *le
monde* thinks.

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.

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.

Nick



On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is  "y'all"  a  sure tell of trolling ?
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is what I imagine y'all are doing when you chat with LLMs:
>>
>> Confusing ChatGPT With an Impossible Paradox
>> https://youtu.be/1qbiCKrbbYc?si=V8U_mioTmlaDpynM
>>
>> At times, it smacks of a Monty Python skit.
>>
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