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gf000today at 1:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Humans are "multi-modal". Sure we get plenty of non-textual information, but LLMs were trained on basically every human-written world ever. They definitely see many orders of magnitude more language than any human has ever seen. And yet humans get fluent based after 3+ years.


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virgildotcodestoday at 4:37 PM

For sure, it seems like there's something there primed to pick up human language quickly, clearly evolutionarily driven.

Not necessarily so for the dynamics of magnetic fields, or nonhuman animal communications, or dark energy/matter.

We are bombarded nonstop by magnetic fields, nonhuman animal communications, and live in a universe which seems to be majority dominated by dark energy and matter, and yet understand little to none of it all.