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mercer • today at 1:19 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Now I'm curious if anyone has or might try to create an LLM that lacks all knowledge of the post-einstein/newton/plato world and see if it can figure things out. I imagine lack of training data would be a problem, but maybe it could be a way to reverse-engineer an effective prompt that can give us insight in the platos of our world?


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StilesCrisis • today at 1:29 PM

Wouldn't it need a way to run physical experiments?

leereeves • today at 1:28 PM

> I imagine lack of training data would be a problem

I imagine that's an understatement. Using only the written works available from before Einstein (let alone Newton or Plato), you'd probably need a whole new technology that could train itself without any training data other than observation of the world.