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What do modern LLMs act like then to you?
They act like LLMs. They are unprecedented.
It'a even in their name, they model language, language is the thing that humans use to communicate, therefore they model communcating humans.
Humans are the precedent.
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The person who memorized the book doesn’t understand Chinese. In fact they don’t even understand that Chinese isn’t a language. Searle’s response stands.
So you could put this person in a room with a bunch of native Chinese speakers, and he could hold conversations fluently with all of them. Yet you claim he doesn't understand Chinese? How can you possibly defend that? This is very close to "zombie theory" -- everyone else is an automaton except you. Nobody else has real thoughts. That obviously fluent Chinese speaker doesn't really understand Chinese.
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It's almost always about the money. Some studies have shown something as simple as free car seats can influence fertility rates. We know next to nothing about microplastics - pseudoscience can wait at the door.
The car seat thing is about how people don't have kids because they'd need to have a car that can fit 2-3-4 car seats, which is a gigantic, very expensive car. Car seat requirements prevent childbearing != giving people car seats induces childbearing
Anyways, that makes sense. I can see how I got two studies mixed up if that's what I'm actually remembering!
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They act like LLMs. They are unprecedented.
Self referential nonsense. You cannot have something that that is both a model of something and unprecedented. It'a even in their name, they model language, language is the thing that humans use to communicate, therefore they model communcating humans. Humans are the precedent.
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So you could put this person in a room with a bunch of native Chinese speakers, and he could hold conversations fluently with all of them. Yet you claim he doesn't understand Chinese? How can you possibly defend that? This is very close to "zombie theory" -- everyone else is an automaton except you. Nobody else has real thoughts. That obviously fluent Chinese speaker doesn't really understand Chinese.
You actually think using Google translate in conversation means you understand the language. This is your position.