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		wruza on Feb 11, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to th... A side effect of this is that a zip.exe that unzips a zip into a book that contains text indistiguishable from the output of a human must reason too. From what I can see, you’re only massaging semantics. That is uninteresting.

ninetyninenine on Feb 11, 2025 [–]

No. I clearly said it must output novel things that aren’t part of the input.

In your example the book is the training data or aka the input.

wruza on Feb 11, 2025 | [–]

Agreed, that was a wrong example.

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