>> As a non-coder I can get away with asking this: Why is it so hard to simulate reason? It isn't. We know how to do reasoning with computers. The discussion a

>> As a non-coder I can get away with asking this: Why is it so hard to simulate reason? It isn't. We know how to do reasoning with computers. The discussion about reasoning in LLMs is carried out in an echo chamber that ignores the prior work on reasoning (for a bit of a summary see my bio). Which of course makes it very hard for the people involved to understand why their systems fail at it; or, often, that they fail at it.