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hodgehog11today at 3:37 AM1 replyview on HN

As an example, "They're made out of weights" describes why the weight-based construction of neural networks should impact the way that you think about them and their outputs. I would argue that an offhand description of its microscopic formulation tells us nothing at all about how to think about these outputs, or the models themselves. Even if it is a cute story, I think it definitely classifies as succumbing to this fallacy, but maybe I missed some subtle point that you or someone would be happy to illuminate?

By the way, I know it's a parody of another story that makes this exact refutation. But I think this only serves to highlight the point.


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root_axistoday at 3:48 AM

> They're made out of weights" describes why the weight-based construction of neural networks should impact the way that you think about them and their outputs.

How do you connect that description to "LLMs could not possibly be good models of some cognitive capacity"?

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