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bandramitoday at 4:06 AM2 repliesview on HN

One weird thing I've found is that it's incredibly difficult to get an LLM to generate an invalid syllogism. They can generate false premises all day, and they will usually call a valid syllogism with a false major or minor premise invalid. But you have to basically quote an invalid syllogism to get them to repeat it; they won't form one on their own.


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ChadNauseamtoday at 5:13 AM

First try with claude: https://claude.ai/share/fabaf585-3732-4264-9ff3-03e4182c82a4

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nomilktoday at 5:56 AM

Only time encountering the word syllogism was a Norm Macdonald joke.

Disappointingly, syllogism seems to have 3 definitions which mean slightly different things: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/syllogism

I guess the commonality is that a syllogism typically contains deductive reasoning (i.e. from the general to the specific)

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