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  • Fair, but the same is true of me. I don’t actually “reason”; I just have a set of algorithms memorized by which I propose a pattern that seems like it might match the situation, then a different pattern by which I break the situation down into smaller components and then apply patterns to those components. I keep the process up for a while. If I find a “nasty logic error” pattern match at some point in the process, I “know” I’ve found a “flaw in the argument” or “bug in the design”.

    But there’s no from-first-principles method by which I developed all these patterns; it’s just things that have survived the test of time when other patterns have failed me.

    I don’t think people are underestimating the power of LLMs to think; I just think people are overestimating the power of humans to do anything other than language prediction and sensory pattern prediction.
















  • Whenever I play minecraft I always play survival mode. Creative mode just doesn’t interest me.

    Being super rich and filling one’s house with expensive shit sounds like creative mode.

    It just sounds so boring.

    “Your objective: spend at least $3M on this room”

    “Ooh I bet I can find some coasters that cost me $50k! ooh goody”