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Humans have many well-documented cognitive shortcomings and failure modes. Does that mean we don't reason either?
by gaganyaan 2y ago
Humans have many well-documented cognitive shortcomings and failure modes. Does that mean we don't reason either?
- suprjami 2y agoWe aren't talking about a human mind which operates in unexpected or ways which don't conform with society. Don't bring an appeal to neurodivergence to an LLM argument. We are talking about a computer program whose operation we understand, can observe, and can debug. Modern LLMs certainly take a lot of human effort to do this, but it can be done.
- gaganyaan 2y agoThis isn't about neurodivergence. Every single human suffers from a long list of cognitive shortcomings. We just call them things like "optical illusions" and find them interesting, but don't then go on to make silly claims like "humans can't reason".
- suprjami 2y agoBecause humans can reason. There is a difference between faulty reasoning and no reasoning at all.