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altruioslast Tuesday at 11:15 PM1 replyview on HN

An analogy is asking someone who is colorblind how many colors are on a sheet of paper. What you are probing isn't reasoning, it's perception. If you can't see the input, you can't reason about the input.


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9rxlast Wednesday at 4:30 AM

> What you are probing isn't reasoning, it's perception.

Its both. A colorblind person will admit their shortcomings and, if compelled to be helpful like an LLM is, will reason their way to finding a solution that works around their limitations.

But as LLMs lack a way to reason, you get nonsense instead.

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