this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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But the general public (myself included) doesn’t really understand how our own reasoning happens.
Does anyone, really? i.e., am I merely a meat computer that takes in massive amounts of input over a lifetime, builds internal models of the world, tests said models through trial-and-error, and outputs novel combinations of data when said combinations are useful for me in a given context in said world?
Is what I do when I “reason” really all that different from what an LLM does, fundamentally? Do I do more than language prediction when I “think”? And if so, what is it?
This is definitely part of the issue, not sure why people are downvoting this. That's also why tests like this are important, to illustrate that thinking in the way we know it isn't happening in these models.
downvotes are not allowed on beehaw fyi
Downvotes aren't federated but you still see all the downvotes sent from just your own instance
Interesting. I figured since this post is in a Beehaw community they would be invisible to everyone, but good to know.