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Re: LLM-as-a-Courtroom

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Post by direwolf20 »

emsign wrote: post #20
direwolf20 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It encodes what things cause humans to argue for or against user harm. That's enough.

That's not enough. An argument over something only works for the humans involved because they share a common knowledge and experience of being human. You keep making the mistake of believing that an LLM can deduct an understanding of a situation from a conversation, just because you can. An LLM does not think like a human.

Who cares how it thinks? It's a Chinese room. If the input–output mapping works, then it's correct.

Re: LLM-as-a-Courtroom

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Post by emsign »

iamgioh wrote: post #16
emsign wrote: post #12

An LLM does not understand what "user harm" is. This doesn't work.

Well, it's all about linguistic relativism, right? If you can define "user harm" in terms of things it does understand, I think you could get something that works

The idea that language influences the world view isn't new, it was speculated upon long before artificial intelligence was a thing, but it explicitely speculates about having an influence on the world view of humans. It doesn't postulate that language itself creates a worldview in whatever system processes text. Or else books would have a worldview.

It's a categeory error to apply it to an LLM. Language works on humans, because we share a common experience as humans, it's not just a logical description of thoughts, it's also an arrangement of symbols that stand for experiences a human can have. That why humans are able to empathically experience a story, because it triggers much more than just rational thought inside their brains.

Re: LLM-as-a-Courtroom

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Post by emsign »

direwolf20 wrote: post #21
emsign wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not enough. An argument over something only works for the humans involved because they share a common knowledge and experience of being human. You keep making the mistake of believing that an LLM can deduct an understanding of a situation from a conversation, just because you can. An LLM does not think like a human.

Who cares how it thinks? It's a Chinese room. If the input–output mapping works, then it's correct.

But it's not correct! Exactly because it can't possibly have enough training data to fill the void of not being able to experience the human condition. Text is not enough. The error rate of LLMs are horrendously bad. And the errors grow exponentially the more steps follow each other.

All the great work you see on the internet AI has supposedly done was only achieved by a human doing lots of trial and error and curating everything the agentic LLM did. And it's all cherry picked successes.

Re: LLM-as-a-Courtroom

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Post by dragonwriter »

emsign wrote: post #22
iamgioh wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's all about linguistic relativism, right? If you can define "user harm" in terms of things it does understand, I think you could get something that works

The idea that language influences the world view isn't new, it was speculated upon long before artificial intelligence was a thing, but it explicitely speculates about having an influence on the world view of humans. It doesn't postulate that language itself creates a worldview in whatever system processes text. Or else books would have a worldview. It's a categeory error to apply it to an LLM. Language works on huma…

> It doesn't postulate that language itself creates a worldview in whatever system processes text. Or else books would have a worldview.

Books don't process text.

Re: LLM-as-a-Courtroom

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Post by nader24 »

This is a fascinating architecture, but I’m wondering about the cost and latency profile per PR. Running a Prosecutor, Defense, 5 Jurors, and a Judge for every merged PR seems like a massive token overhead compared to a standard RAG check.

Re: LLM-as-a-Courtroom

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Post by m463 »

direwolf20 wrote: post #18
test6554 wrote: post #10

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Re: LLM-as-a-Courtroom

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Post by pu_pe »

Every time I see some complex orchestration like this, I feel that the authors should have compared it to simpler alternatives. One of the metrics they use is that human review suggests the system is right 83% of the time. How much performance would they achieve by just having a reasoning "judge" decide without all the other procedure?

Re: LLM-as-a-Courtroom

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Post by handoflixue »

emsign wrote: post #23
direwolf20 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who cares how it thinks? It's a Chinese room. If the input–output mapping works, then it's correct.

But it's not correct! Exactly because it can't possibly have enough training data to fill the void of not being able to experience the human condition. Text is not enough. The error rate of LLMs are horrendously bad. And the errors grow exponentially the more steps follow each other. All the great work you see on the internet AI has supposedly done was only achieved by a human doing lots of trial and error and curati…

> But it's not correct!

The article explicitly states an 83% success rate. That's apparently good enough for them! Systems don't need to be perfect to be useful.

Re: LLM-as-a-Courtroom

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Post by samusiam »

pu_pe wrote: post #28

Every time I see some complex orchestration like this, I feel that the authors should have compared it to simpler alternatives. One of the metrics they use is that human review suggests the system is right 83% of the time. How much performance would they achieve by just having a reasoning "judge" decide without all the other procedure?

I agree. If they're not testing against a simple baseline of standard best practice, then they're either ignorant about how to do even basic research, or trying to show off / win internet points. Occam's razor folks.
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