Comment by nonadhocproblem
6 days ago
> It's matrix multiplication.
Hilarious critique. If you weren't as mathematically illiterate as you likely are, you would know how general matrix operations are, and how essentially any algorithm (including human cognition) can be implemented using them as an intermediate.
I'm not. But I'll concede you are possibly more literate - I won't dox myself on this account.
Congratulations.
If you honestly argue that LLM computation and human cognition are equivalent there is no further argument to be had - it's immediately a philosophical or worse a religious argument that cannot be won.
However, that we're even arguing on that level baffles me. How did this happen! They're glorified calculators.
They really marketed the hell (sorry) out of LLMs.
> uses a specific, objectively nonsensical critique of LLMs (the idea that an algorithm using matrix operations as a primitive cannot emulate "true" intelligence)
> receives pushback on the specific, objectively nonsensical critique
> "oh so you're saying that LLM computation and human cognition are equivalent? they're glorified calculators that disprove the Jacobian conjecture!!!"
>the idea that an algorithm using matrix operations as a primitive cannot emulate "true" intelligence
I did not say that. Not even close.
In the words of Claude: I’ll end the conversation here. <end_conversation>
Being correct doesn't give you licence to use insults.