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One weird thing I've found is that it's incredibly difficult to get an LLM to generate an invalid syllogism. They can generate false premises all day, and they
by bandrami 10mo ago
One weird thing I've found is that it's incredibly difficult to get an LLM to generate an invalid syllogism. They can generate false premises all day, and they will usually call a valid syllogism with a false major or minor premise invalid. But you have to basically quote an invalid syllogism to get them to repeat it; they won't form one on their own.
- ChadNauseam 10mo agoFirst try with claude: https://claude.ai/share/fabaf585-3732-4264-9ff3-03e4182c82a4 https://claude.ai/share/fabaf585-3732-4264-9ff3-03e4182c82a4
- bandrami 10mo agoVery cool. Claude failed hard on this a few months ago. Gemma and phi have gotten better at it in recent versions, too, though qwen is still confidently getting it wrong.
- nomilk 10mo agoOnly time encountering the word syllogism was a Norm Macdonald joke. Disappointingly, syllogism seems to have 3 definitions which mean slightly different things: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/syllogism https://www.thefreedictionary.com/syllogism I guess the commonality is that a syllogism typically contains deductive reasoning (i.e. from the general to the specific)
- DiscourseFan 10mo agoSyllogism: Universal claim: all cats are animals Particular claim: Max is a cat Singular claim: Max is an animal.
- EnPissant 10mo agoDo you own a dog house?
- keeganpoppen 10mo agoi know this comment is not really HN-worthy, but i find your username very wntertaining and funny
- EnPissant 9mo agoThanks. I consider myself an insignificant or contemptible person or thing. Also, everyone loves chess puns.