alt Hacker NewsClaude once said to me: "After six months we have made no progress on this and I think we should reconsider another option" and I was like my dude we have been at this for only 2 hours.
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dmitshur • yesterday at 11:37 PM
Maybe time passes at a different rate for it, making it an easy "mistake" of not accounting for that for it to make.
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I like this anecdote because it gets at how words to an LLM have no connection to their real concepts. To an LLM, words are simply numbers arranged in a likely pattern.