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Watching o3 model sweat over a Paul Morphy mate-in-2

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Re: Watching o3 model sweat over a Paul Morphy mate-in-2

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My thought process was, let me try out a few moves that attack Black. There aren't that many, so... Kb8? No, not allowed. Kb7? No, not allowed. Pa7? No, that doesn't really help. Ra7? No, that doesn't lead to anything useful. Ra6? Oh, yeah, that works.

But I wasn't thinking in text, I was thinking graphically. I was visualizing the board. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that you can tokenize graphics. When is that coming?

Re: Watching o3 model sweat over a Paul Morphy mate-in-2

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Post by globnomulous »

bluefirebrand wrote: post #69
globnomulous wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And then there's the further question of where we draw the line in ourselves. One of my teachers -- a philosopher -- once said that real, actual thought is incredibly rare. He's a world-renowned expert but says he can count on one hand the number of times in his life that he felt he was thinking rather than remembering and reorganizing what he already knew. That's not to say "are you remembering or reasoning" means t…

> One of my teachers -- a philosopher -- once said that real, actual thought is incredibly rare Probably should listen to psychologists and neuroscientists about this, not philosophers tbh

When it comes to describing what the brain physically does, sure. When it comes to naming and interpreting, the philosophers are the ones to trust.
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